HISTORY & CIVILIZATIONS · Medieval era
Rano Raraku, Rapa Nui, Chile
Rapa Nui’s stone figures belong to a distinctive Polynesian cultural landscape. Many were carved at Rano Raraku.
The story, as a puzzle
Where the moai took shape.
Most of the giant stone figures on one of the most isolated inhabited islands on Earth were carved in a single volcanic crater. Pin the quarry.
Where it is
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