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May 25, 2012 · The mysterious Easter Island statues — hundreds of huge, ancient carved stone heads that guard the hilly Pacific island landscape — may actually have bodies, according to an email showing...
May 1, 2015 · Find out what archaeologists have known all along: Easter Island's iconic moai heads have bodies, long-buried up to their shoulders. There is more to the iconic Easter Island heads than meets the eye.
Though moai are whole-body statues, they are often referred to as "Easter Island heads" in some popular literature. This is partly because of the disproportionate size of most moai heads, and partly because many of the images for the island showing upright moai are of the statues on the slopes of Rano Raraku , many of which are buried to their ...
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May 14, 2012 · Rating: True. About this rating. The 887 monolithic human figures carved from rock on Easter Island (known as moai) are familiar to many people through iconic images that show the statues to...
Jun 12, 2018 · Print. Images from the 2012 excavation of Easter Island’s iconic statues reveal the renowned heads are not only connected to giant bodies, but the bodies are covered in mysterious designs and symbols, which researchers have likened to tattoos.
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May 23, 2019 · Did you know that the Easter Island heads have bodies? Due to shifting soils, the bodies of many of the sculptures have been buried underground, giving the illusion that they are only heads. Stock Photos from Keith Michael Taylor/Shutterstock
Mar 22, 2022 · They stand up to 10m tall and weigh up to 80 tons. Nearly 1,000 of the statues reside on the island. An excavated moai, circa 2014. Photo: Easter Island Statue Project. Early travelers to the remote island, which lies some 3,200km off the coast of South America, included Captain James Cook.
