A team of experts at UCLA developed the Easter Island Statue Project to better ... of the heads to reveal the underlying torso and body. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, a researcher at the University ...

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Maybe this isn't a newsflash to everyone, but the Moai "heads" on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are ...

The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui live on the island, which belongs to Chile.

Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with ... Treatments include bamboo therapy, hot stone massage and volcanic clay body wraps. Seafood is of course abundant on the island ...

A mysterious script engraved on wooden tablets from Easter Island is completely unlike any ... such as human postures and body parts, animals, plants, tools, heavenly bodies, etc,” they continue.

Easter Island is generally a brief stop on a world ... Its Manavai Spa has treatments like bamboo therapy, hot stone massages, body scrubs, and more in addition to a Jacuzzi and a sauna.

But the ancient genomes add to a growing body of evidence that the idea of a self-inflicted population collapse on Easter Island is a false narrative, said Matisoo-Smith, who wasn’t involved in ...