Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the ...
Easter Island’s monumental stone statues may have been created through a decentralised artistic and spiritual tradition, with many different communities making their own carved stone giants, rather ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carl Lipo, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) Rapa ...
MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) - The state's third giant troll will soon make its home in Palmer Lake. It joins the two in Victor and Breckenridge. It's the first created by a Colorado artist, and the first ...
After Donald Trump's victory last November vaulted America's far-right wing to new heights, his wealthy fans in the tech space are eager to erect new monuments to American history and might. Trump ...
While visiting friends in San Francisco in 2018, investor Ross Calvin watched golden hour shine across the Bay and found it was missing one thing: a Statue of Liberty. Seven years later, Calvin is ...
When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on Easter Island in 1722, he was puzzled by how the indigenous islanders could have transported the hundreds of colossal stone statues he found studding ...
Two posts have gone viral on the social media platform X, suggesting President Trump is considering installing a giant statue of Jesus on the White House lawn, receiving over 2.3 million views between ...
Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...
For decades, anyone driving along Interstate Highway 280 in Hillsborough could look up and see a giant statue of Father Junípero Serra watching over the Peninsula next to the Crystal Springs rest stop ...
A giant statue of Saint Junipero Serra towered over I-280 in Hillsborough for five decades. Without any big announcements, California Department of Transportation crews suddenly removed and demolished ...
HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. (KRON) — A statue of a giant robed man pointing his finger above Interstate-280 is a well-known landmark for people traveling between San Jose and San Francisco. The statue of ...