Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter ... no legs; many were made from volcanic ash and are near fresh water on the island.

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a ... carved stone figures with elongated faces and no legs that were mostly quarried from tuff, a kind of volcanic ...

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island ... statues are a part of Rapanui oral traditions, with the word "neke neke" in the Rapanui language translating to "walking without legs ...

Easter Island in the southeast Pacific is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. In February, archaeologists found ...

Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island ...

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he ... glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across the island’s shore. These moai may not be as ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads ... Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were created by a Polynesian ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire ...

Moai statues on Easter Island Photo by Andia / Universal Images Group / Getty Images Last week, a fire spread through Easter Island and caused permanent damage to the area’s iconic statues ...

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 ...

The famous statues on Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — have suffered "irreparable" damage in a fire, local authorities said. A photo shared by the municipality of Rapa Nui on social ...

Graham Hancock's new theory claims a lost civilization built the Easter Island statues more than 11,000 years old. (photo credit: f11photo. Via Shutterstock) A new theory about who built the giant ...