Earlier this month, a fire caused “irreparable damage” to hundreds of moai, according to the local government of the island, known as Rapa Nui to locals. Although the true toll is still being ...

The Rapa Nui people, he says, used ropes and momentum to move the moai. He scrunches his shoulders toward his ears, makes like he’s a stone statue and stiffly rocks his upper body left to right.

The monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, suffered severe charring in the blaze on Rapa Nui, 2,175 miles off the west coast of Chile. “More than 100 hectares (247 acres) were affected ...

From the 10th to the 16th century this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people ...

There are hundreds of huge stone statues on Rapa Nui — the so-called Moai. No one has ever conclusively found out why they exist. But researchers have long assumed that many thousands of people ...

Rapa Nui, sometimes known by its colonial name of Easter Island, is perhaps an extreme example, being one of the most isolated places on Earth. It was peopled more than 800 years ago by Polynesian ...

Early settlers of the island of Rapa Nui are famous for having created massive stone statues. They have also gotten a bad rap as instigators of a population boom that led to ecological and social ...

A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given ... They were decorated on top with "Pukao," a soft red stone in the shape of a hat. The statues also have torsos buried beneath the heads.

Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island ... wisdom grew out of speculation about another set of stone structures on the island: the iconic massive ...