Easter Island’s massive stone statues, known as moai, were carved at a single quarry and then somehow transported miles ...

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Jordi Canal-Soler arrived at Rapa Nui after visiting half the world attracted by the local culture, in danger of extinction ...

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And one of the last places these ancient humans made their way to was the southeastern Pacific island of Rapa Nui, known more broadly as Easter Island. Located 2,360 miles off the coast of Chile—which ...