Current Affairs Czech who made Moai statues walk returns to Easter Island
You know them from magazines or TV documentaries. The giant stone statues from Easter Island in the South Pacific, human heads on male torsos carved from volcanic ash. They belong to a number of stone monuments around the world, such as Stonehenge or the pyramids, whose origin remains a mystery, constantly tormenting teams of scientists trying to work out how ancient civilisations managed to move around blocks of stone weighing many tonnes. The mystery of the "moai" - as the statues are called in the local language - was solved seventeen years ago by a Czech engineer called Pavel Pavel, who is now returning to Easter Island.
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