On a lonely island in the Pacific Ocean, a line of giant statues has stood for around 500 years. The backs of the statues are to the ocean, and their huge stone heads look toward the island’s center, but the people who made them are gone. The mysteries of Easter Island draw visitors and scientists, and they are still learning new things about the statues and the people who made them.

The 887 statues are called “moai,” meaning “face of ancestors.” They have rectangular heads, big noses, wide chins, and deep eyes. On average, they’re about four meters tall and weigh 12.7 tonnes, but the biggest is nearly 22 meters tall. Some have red stone eyes, and others wear hats. 

Most people only notice the large heads of these statues, but there are bodies below the heads. Many of the bodies are covered by earth, so scientists had to do some digging. Now they know that the bodies have interesting symbols4 on them. These symbols may have been put there to say which family the statue belonged to.


在太平洋的一座孤島上,一列巨大的雕像已經屹立了約五百年。雕像背朝海洋,巨大的石像面向島嶼中央,但創造它們的人已經不在了。復活島的種種謎團吸引了遊客和科學家,他們都還不斷聽聞到這些雕像和其創造者的種種新鮮事。

這八百八十七座雕像被稱為「摩埃」,意思是「先祖之顏」。它們的頭呈長方形、鼻子大、下巴寬且雙眼深陷。平均來說,它們約有四公尺高、十二點七公噸重,但最大的有將近二十二公尺高。有些有紅石頭作為眼睛,有些則戴著帽子。。

大多數人只注意到這些雕像的頭很龐大,但頭底下是有身體的。其中許多身體的部份都被泥土覆蓋住,所以科學家需要做些挖掘。現在他們知道雕像身上有些有趣的符號。這些符號可能是標注在那裡以說明這座雕像是屬於哪個家族的。

文章出處:Live互動英語雜誌

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