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This Museum Is Returning Human Remains A Norwegian Explorer Took From Easter Island
Now, the remains are being returned to the island by the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway. Easter Island is a remote ... particularly its hundreds of moai-monumental statues of human figures ...
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Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back to Easter Island
The Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo announced on Wednesday ... the indigenous population of Easter Island, which is known for its hundreds of moai—monolithic human figures carved centuries ago.
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Past Attempts
Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...
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Scientists just unearthed a new statue on Easter Island. Take a look inside one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo Anne Van Tilburg believes the moai were built to honor ancestors and chieftains, or for ritual use to commune with gods, she told PBS. National Geographic ...
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Moai Statues on Easter Island (IMAGE)
Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...
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The Team
Santi has shown his rock sculptures and paintings at the Museum of Art Los Angeles ... paths that could be used to transport the moai on Easter Island, in addition to helping to refine the ...
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Rapa Nui National Park
Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an ...
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Indiana University completes its first international repatriation of human remains to Easter Island
Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...
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If They Could Only Talk
This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...
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The intriguing lives of world famous statues
Image caption, Hoa Hakananai’a is one of two Easter Island statues in the British Museum collection The Moai were carved by the people of Rapa Nui between AD1100 and AD1600. The two removed by ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai ... with Easter Island stops. Rapa Nui National Park covers half of the island, and feels like an "open-air museum," Lonely ...