History | Ancient History on Instagram: "Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a remote Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, renowned for its nearly 1,000 monumental stone statues called moai, which stand as powerful expressions of the island’s ancestral culture. Carved primarily between the 13th and 16th centuries from the volcanic tuff of the Rano Raraku quarry, these towering figures—some over 30 feet tall and weighing many tons—represent deified ancestors whose spiritual presence wa