We passed more moai face down on the ground. Turning around and looking back at Rano Raraku offered another new perspective ...

Most of the moai statues face south, so it'd be tricky to get their faces fully sunlit regardless of whether you go in the ...

The moai are carved out of volcanic stone. Most face inland, except for seven that face the ocean. In February, scientists found a previously undiscovered statue in a dry lake bed inside a ...

The moai lay face down on the sledge. Mulloy suggested that by inching the individual legs forward in bipedal fashion, the moai could then be rocked forward using the outward curve of its belly as ...

“It all makes sense: the moai face the people walking towards the volcano. “The statues are more frequent the closer they are to the volcano – which has to be way of signifying the increasing levels ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...