Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island
The Rano Raraku quarry is where nearly 400 moai remain in various stages of completion — torsos swallowed by centuries of erosion, heads still emerging from the hillside. This is where the work happened, and it's the place that makes the scale of the whole enterprise feel real. © Aurbina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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