The Moai statues of Easter Island are a key part of ... These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full ...

The Moai statues consist of large heads and smaller bodies, which are ... A.D. by the natives of this island, known as Rapa Nui, according to the official Easter Island travel guide, allegedly ...

Their bodies were etched with enigmatic symbols ... seemed both comfortingly human and formidably divine. There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the islanders call ...

Their expressionless elongated faces, not proportional with the rest of their bodies ... to Easter Island defied time — I was in the past, looking into the eye sockets of the moai, imagining ...

There are nearly 1,000 of the moai on Easter Island, distinctive for their huge heads. Their bodies are often buried beneath the earth and have in recent years been excavated. Delegates from the ...

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.

Rapanui Municipality/AFP via Getty Images A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week ...

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 ...

“It doesn’t have a lot of things to see.” Now, people can see his replicas of the famed Moai (Moe-eye) statues, better known as Easter Island heads. Easter Island, located in the middle of ...