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 ...

Easter Island, situated around 2,200 miles west of Chile, is infamous for its "heads," or moai statues, created by the Rapa Nui people. The small island is only 63.2 square miles in area ...

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 ...

This 1950s footage captures a captivating exploration of Easter Island, focusing on its iconic moai statues ... include a moai silhouetted against a sunset, providing a hauntingly beautiful ...

By Johnny Diaz Some of the ancient monolithic statues in Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island have been damaged beyond repair in a wildfire, the authorities said. The fire has burned more than ...

Mayor of Easter Island Pedro Edmunds told local media: "The damage caused by the fire can't be undone" A fire has damaged the enigmatic statues on Easter Island, with some of the charring said to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

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 ...