Historic Moai statue to be returned to Easter Island
Al Mayadeen Net
2 min readAfter being kept at a Chile museum since 1870, the sacred statue returned to its home place, over 3,000 kilometers from the coast.
The moai heads at Rano Raraku, the quarry on Easter Island. The sculptures have bodies attached, but they are buried under the dirt and not visible. About 400 moai are here in various stages of carving. (Karen Schwartz/AP)
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