Moana has clearly been a family affair for the Dwayne Johnson family. The Rock brought his daughter at one point when he was ...

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

The volcanic crater is made of tuff, a soft volcanic rock ideal for carving. From 1100 to 1500 AD, roughly one thousand moai ...

Below are some of the theories sent in to this Web site about ways to move and erect the moai. I am a fifth-grade ... some around it and moving the rock around the immediate area.

At Anakena seven potbellied moai stand at attention on a 52-foot-long stone platform—backs to the Pacific, arms at their sides, heads capped with tall pukao of red scoria, another volcanic rock.

The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous ... is unique because it is made from a very hard basalt lava rock, unlike the majority of statues on Rapa Nui.

ROCK IT, standing up ... is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu sites around the island.

The large cylindrical pukaos are made of red volcanic rock called scoria, while the Moai heads are carved from volcanic tuff. The materials were excavated from craters at opposites sides of the ...

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The reclusive land artist Michael Heizer turned 80 this week. We celebrated by taking a life-changing voyage to visit his ...