However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he ... glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across the island’s shore. These moai may not be as ...

A fire set on Easter Island has badly damaged the sacred “moai” statues—some irreparably, according to the director of the park. The blaze was set deliberately on Monday around the Rano ...

the statues' empty eye sockets, once embellished with white coral and red scoria, gazed perennially across Easter Island. Their bodies were etched with enigmatic symbols, and their faces ...

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 ...

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the ... who has expertise in ancient Oceanic art. She notes that walking statues are a part of Rapanui oral traditions, with ...

A potentially deliberate wildfire on Easter Island has wrought irreparable damage to the ancient moai head statues that dot the landscape of the Rapa Nui Natural Park, near the island’s Rano ...

Easter Island, situated around 2,200 miles west of Chile, is infamous for its "heads," or moai statues, created by the Rapa Nui people. The small island is only 63.2 square miles in area ...

Researchers have uncovered another of Easter Island's famous moai statues, local officials announced on Tuesday. Community leaders welcomed the news and believe it could be a key to further ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is ...