"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 ...

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

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.

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

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.

When the moai were carved, the island was divided according to its clans, but most of the statues were created in Rano Raraku. The ahu were built near the sea. It is not certain how the moai ...

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 ...

When the moai were carved, the island was divided according to its clans, but most of the statues were created in Rano Raraku. The ahu were built near the sea. It is not certain how the moai ...

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 ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—have unearthed a previously unknown statue. The new find is one of the moai, the famous stone figures located around ...

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