A fire, from a human or volcano, on Easter Island, Chile, caused irreparable damage to the Moai statues, or Easter Island heads, mayor says. Photo from the Municipalidad de Rapa Nui A fire on ...

Some Easter Island statues have been irreperably damaged by a forest fire that tore through a national park. The monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, suffered severe charring in the ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand ... came from a common religion—even if they don’t always look alike. “Containers in Hawaii ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters ... "Obviously you accept them and you don't take them to your bathroom or bedroom because they're animals, cows, horses, sheep," Edmunds said, adding ...

Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai - one of the Pacific island's distinctive stone statues. It was found in a dried-out lake bed around the Rano Raraku volcano ...

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 ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed on the tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.

Santiago, Chile (AP) -- A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Surprising new evidence is rewriting the story of the giant stone heads of Easter Island. How were Easter Island’s giant stone heads made? New research challenges the idea that their ...

For centuries, Western scholars have touted the fate of the native population on Easter Island (Rapa Nui ... 12th century or early 13th century, we don't really know very much about the timing ...