Island’s famous Moai statues remain one of the greatest archaeological enigmas in the world. This video questions the mainstream narrative that Polynesian settlers carved and transported over 1,000 ...

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said.

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.

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 ...

The fire – caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano – started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were ...

A new moai was discovered after a volcano crater lake dried up. Source Comunidad Ma'u Henua HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A new moai was found on Easter Island in the ...

A newly discovered Moai statue on Easter Island has been found buried in a dried up lake bed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

RAPANUI MUNICIPALITY SHOWS MOAIS/ AFP "Here are my moai!" Vaihere Tuki Haoa walked toward a mound of volcanic stone overlooking the ocean. On the southeastern tip of Easter Island, two sleeping ...

Two moai are currently held at the museum. These are monolithic ancestral heads originating from Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, better known as Easter Island in English. The first moai ...