Sentences with phrase «giant moai»
The giant moai monoliths of Easter Island have beckoned to travellers for centuries.
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But over the course of several centuries it was totally destroyed, mainly through an ego - driven competition among neighboring clans to produce more and bigger moais, the giant statues for which the island is so famous.
Thought to have been sculpted by early settlers between AD 700 and AD 1500, some 887 moai dot Easter Island, with the 15 giant heads of Ahu Tongariki the real stars of the show.