Showing posts with label Rapa Nui. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rapa Nui. Show all posts

Jan 27, 2012

Easter Island

Those famous heads that we have all seen pictures of turn out to have bodies. Many of the 887 moai known to date have been excavated and found to have bodies. The island's real name is Rapa Nui.

These statues ring the island and have been a source of fascination and conjecture for centuries. Contrary to some stories, the majority of the statues face inward, not looking out to the ocean.