These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous ...

The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma to experts ... it can flow out of the ground and into surface water bodies - this is the groundwater discharge.

the statues' empty eye sockets, once embellished with white coral and red scoria, gazed perennially across Easter Island. Their bodies were etched with enigmatic symbols, and their faces ...

A viral Reddit post has claimed that one of the Easter Island ... statues was carved, but was never erected, and would have been 72 feet tall. The Moai statues consist of large heads and smaller ...

Several iconic Easter Island head statues suffered “irreparable” damage in a fire that may have been the result of arson, according to local officials. “More than 100 hectares were affected ...

In this Polynesian territory that now belongs to Chile and is widely known as Easter Island ... were carved, the island was divided according to its clans, but most of the statues were created ...

Each stone statue represents an ancestor who had died. Though they are commonly referred to as “Easter Island heads,” the moai actually have entire bodies, some of which have been covered up ...

Easter Island is home to nearly 1,000 of the huge statues, known as moai. It has not yet been confirmed how many have been damaged in the fire. Each oversized head – carved by tribespeople 500 ...

Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is the home of several replica Moai head statues ... Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean and housed in museums around the world, have ...