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How Did a Moai Statue End Up in a Lagoon?
A newly identified sculpture in Easter Island found in a dried wetland intrigues researchers studying the Rapa Nui society.
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UNESCO and Google Demonstrate How Climate Change Threatens Five Heritage Sites
Heritage on the Edge, a collaboration between Google and UNESCO, highlights the ways that climate change threatens five existing heritage sites, including Rapa Nui, Easter Island, and Edinburgh.
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Easter Islanders Are Visiting British Museum to Request Repatriation of Ancestral Heritage
"For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said a member of the Easter Island development commission, Anakena Manutomatoma.
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Easter Islanders Ask British Museum to Return Sacred Statue, Offering Replica in Return
The Rapa Nui community has offered a basalt replica of the eight-foot, four-ton sculpture called Hoa Hakananai’a, which was stolen in 1868.