Saturday, March 10, 2007

CNN posts Buget Travel article

Easter Island: If these statues could talk
By Reid Bramblett - Budget Travel
Photography by M. Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images
CNN
POSTED: 1:13 p.m. EST, March 9, 2007











The Rapa Nui civilization flourished for more than a millennium, then abruptly collapsed, leaving Easter Island strewn with hundreds of enormous stone statues called "moai." As to how and why the moai were built and moved, or even how people came to the island in the first place, there are at least as many theories as questions.


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