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The stone heads of Easter Island have cast an almost magical spell on anyone that has seen them – if only in a photograph. Though often eyeless, they still gaze along the shores of the island. What were they built for and who were the artisans of these mysterious creations?
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Easter Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Easter Island (Rapa Nui: ); (Spanish: Isla de Pascua ) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Ch...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
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(12-06) 04:00 PST Easter Island, Chile -- ... Julio Hotus, who heads the island's Department of Culture and Tourism, said he witnessed the father of Chile's minister of national property hit a moai with a stone to show his wife how they were carved. He was fined $6,000.
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One of Easter Island's giant stone statues, known as Moais, left the Chilean port city of Valparaiso for home on board a navy ship on Friday, ending a 79-year odyssey. ... Some of the heads are more than 20 meters tall, with most averaging 6 meters.
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Easter Island stone heads are 'dying': Ancient Mysteries ... Sloping slightly sideways on the grassy hills beneath the Ranu Raraku volcano, a giant stone head known as a moai shows the wear and tear of time on this triangular 64-square-mile island.
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www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=113559
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Producer Jack Chance of Hearing Voices takes a trip to remote Easter Island to record some of the local music. He hears stories about how the island's famous stone heads, called moai, were arrayed around the perimeter of the island many centuries ago. ... Easter Island moai at dusk.
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Easter Island's stone statues, or moai, tell no tales and offer few clues about why—and how—they came to stand sentinel on this remote speck of island. ... On Easter Island these ancient peoples created nearly 900 hardened-ash statues, averaging 13 feet (4 meters) high and 13 tons, and moved many of them around the...
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Bob Gail Special Events, Event Planning in Los Angeles and Orange County, California - Red Stone Easter Island Heads ... Props > Polynesian Props > Tiki God Props > Red Stone Easter Island Heads...
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Easter Island has long been famous for its hieroglyphs and for hundreds of remarkable monolithic stone heads (moais) whose origin and meaning have been widely debated. Carved from soft volcanic tufa, the statues are from 10 to 40 ft (3–12 m) high, some weighing over 50 tons.
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