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There are around 900 Moai (stone heads) on Easter Island.
Because marble lasts longer than stone
It's possible that this means that the Hope Diamond is being shown without a setting, being shown as a loose stone. Follow the link, below, and scroll down to see the stone being displayed as a loose stone.
Well, honey, Mount Rushmore was carved by a bunch of dudes with jackhammers and dynamite, while those Olmec heads were sculpted out of giant boulders using stone tools. One's a bunch of old white guys on a mountain, and the other is massive stone heads in the jungle. So, to sum it up, one's a patriotic monument and the other is a mysterious ancient art piece.
Plaster , concrete , marble ,alabaster, any stone that can be sculpted .
The use of sculpture dates back thousands of years. Ancient Greeks created stone sculpture and so did the ancient Egyptian culture. Early man created many things out of stone to have for religious rites and to represent various gods. These items today are in museums around the world and are quite remarkable and beautiful considering they were made 5,000 or more years ago.
On Stone Mountain, in Georgia, near Atlanta.
I'm gonna go with stone.
Stone monolithic sculptures.
Many civilizations created stone heads, but the most impressive may have been the moai of Easter Island. However, to be honest, they aren't stone heads; they are just buried up to their necks! When excavated, they are a head and torso, down to the hips.