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How Many Statues Are on Easter Island, and What We Know About Them

Roughly 1,000 moai statues exist on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), the vast majority carved by Rapa Nui people between about 1200 and 1500 CE. Most were quarried at Rano Raraku and s...

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What Are the Statues on Easter Island: A Verified Guide to the Moai

The statues on Easter Island are called moai, carved human figures made by the early Rapa Nui people between roughly 1200 and 1500 CE. These stone figures represent ancestral ch...

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