LARGE STATUE IN THE QUARRY

AT RANO RARAKU
EASTER ISLAND
PICTURE CREDIT GEORGE FRISON

   As the frenzy of statue building continued to expand

there seems to have been a contest to construct the

most impressive monument. Statues became larger 

and some extraordinarily large ones are still in the

quarry. They range in size up to 70 feet long, well

over twice as large as any that had ever been moved

to platforms! To set them in place along the coast they

would have had to transport them for several miles. 
As a comparison, the great statues of Ramses II at

Abu Simbel are a little smaller, only 65 feet high!

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