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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The marquee attraction is the roughly 900 oversized head-and-torso statues ... fires on Easter Island in the more than 32 thousand archaeological sites. To prevent fire, we need to have guards ...

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 ...