What is a moai?

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The largest statues weigh up to 80 tons

It is an emblem of Easter Island!

It is only on this small piece of land, isolated in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, that you can see the moai: these huge statues sculpted in volcanic rock - mainly tuff - between the 13th and 19th centuries. Fifteenth century.

They measure around two to nine meters, 887 have been counted to date and the largest statues are said to weigh up to 80 tonnes.

When discovered by Europeans in the 19th century, some moai seemed unfinished, many were overturned on the ground and some were partially covered with earth, surely victims of earthquakes, tsunamis or social unrest that shook the island.

Even if many hypotheses have been proposed, several mysteries remain around these statues... How were they cut and moved?

And for what purpose?

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