Here’s how it works. A previously unknown moai statue, one of Easter Island's massive carved monoliths, has been found buried beneath a dried up lake bed, Good Morning America reports.

Island heads’ are famous worldwide but also mysterious. Who made these stone statues? How were they transported? What do they ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues.

At the famous quarry of Rano Raraku, about 95% of the statues were carved from soft volcanic tuff. Each Moai statue is unique ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire ...

An estimated several hundred moai are in that area ... The native islanders carved the statues by hand and moved them around the island by tying ropes around them and rocking them into place.

who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been created in the image of various paramount chiefs. They were not individualized portrait sculptures, but standardized ...

A forest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island this week has charred some of its towering iconic carved stone figures ... the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected ...

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