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The statue was a gift from the people of Nii-jima (an island 163 kilometres (101 mi) from Tokyo but administratively part of the city) inspired by Easter Island moai. The name of the statue was derived by combining "moai" and the dialectal Japanese word moyai (催合い) 'helping each other'.
The seven moai statues are located with absolute astronomical precision. Thus, the sacred observatory and sanctuary with all the seven moai look exactly towards the point where the sun sets during the equinox and which also aligns with the Moon. Each one is of 16 feet (4.9 m) height and weighs about 18 tons, [7] and its length is 70 metres (230 ...
Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Pages in category "Moai" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The first moai, Hoa Hakananai’a, is carved from basalt and has been dated to 1000-1200 while the second, Moai Hava, was made from volcanic tuff between 1100 and 1600.
In 2011, a large moai statue was excavated from the ground. [128] During the same excavation program, some larger moai were found to have complex dorsal petroglyphs, revealed by deep excavation of the torso. [129] In 2020, a pickup truck crashed into and destroyed a moai statue due to brake failure. No one was injured in the incident. [130 ...
The park has 887 Moai statues and 300 ceremonial platforms spread across the island, remnants of an extinct megalithic culture that were rediscovered in 1722 by a Dutch explorer. Easter Island is ...
The moai with headgear at Ahu Tahai, restored with coral eyes by the American archaeologist William Mullo. The moai in the park are of varying height from 2 to 20 metres (6 to 65 ft). The volcanic rock formations quarried for sculpting are a distinctive yellow-brown volcanic tuff found only at the Ranu Raraku on the southeast side of the island.
An incomplete moai in quarry. The incomplete statues in the quarry are remarkable for their number, for the inaccessibility of some that were high on the outside crater wall and for the size of the largest; at 21.6 m (71 feet) in height, almost twice that of any moai ever completed and weighing an estimated 270 tonnes, many times the weight of any transported.