Maybe this isn't a newsflash to everyone, but the Moai "heads" on Easter Island have bodies.Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are ...

The island boasts some 1,000 of these stone statues – some standing, others lying on the ground and some even half-buried. The largest can measure up to 21 meters in height and weigh 270 metric ...

Easter Island study disproves popular theory about creation of its famous statues Population collapse theory seems to be ‘colonial narrative’, scientist says Vishwam Sankaran ...

Although only around 600 completed Easter Island statues survive intact or in fragmentary state today, it’s likely that several thousand were made over the centuries - from five-tonne ‘small ...

The globally famous giant stone statues of Easter Island are the world’s best-known Polynesian monumental works of art. Although only around 600 completed Easter Island statues survive intact or in ...

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. The ...

IT’S a sight that has long baffled experts, but new research is finally shedding light on Easter Island’s most perplexing secret. Famously, there are approximately 900 statues, or moai ...

The British Museum’s social media accounts have been inundated with comments telling it to return a moai statue to Easter Island. The museum currently displays two moai, taken from the Chilean ...

Easter Island’s iconic statues remain at risk after devastating fire. Recent blazes chewed through the heritage site, causing “irreparable” damage to hundreds of Rapa Nui’s sacred moai.

This newly discovered statue was found at the bottom of a dried-up lagoon in the crater of a volcano, according to the Rapa Nui community administering Easter Island's national park. Related articles ...

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed.