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UNESCO has awarded a German company a contract to preserve the world-famous but decaying Moai giant head sculptures on Easter Island.
Stefan Maar, founder of Berlin-based Maar Denkmalpflege GmbH, said Tuesday that his company plans to begin treating the statues with chemicals in early 2005 in a project estimated to cost $11.5 million.
The Moai statues–battered by weather, tourism and past restoration attempts–are between 400 and 1,000 years old.
