A surprising discovery suggests the Moai statues on Easter Island share symbolic elements with the carvings on Pillar 43 of ...

Island heads’ are famous worldwide but also mysterious. Who made these stone statues? How were they transported? What do they ...

Maybe this isn't a newsflash to everyone, but the Moai "heads" on Easter Island have bodies ... shows you the scale of the statues, and how deep they were buried. (Note: visitors are prohibited ...

This is Chile’s Easter Island – but it could be ... I reach out to touch one of the fallen statues – or moai – his colossal forehead buried in the turf, his very earlobe as tall as we ...

Researchers are excavating some of Easter Island's famous statues, called moai, unearthing the buried secrets of the most remote inhabited island in the world. The excavation of this moai ...

Witness the mysterious beauty of Easter Island from above with this captivating drone footage. Soar over the iconic moai statues ... Swiss village buried after huge landslide Hailey Bieber ...

Stone statues in a fire-damaged area of Rapa Nui National Park, Easter ... island boasts some 1,000 of these stone statues – some standing, others lying on the ground and some even half-buried.

but researchers are at a loss as to how the statues were transported and erected. Although they are known as Easter Island “heads,” most have torsos and some are buried 20 feet beneath the ...

heads is there are about 150 statues buried up to the shoulders on the slope of a volcano, and these are the most famous, most beautiful and most photographed of all the Easter Island statues ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter ... on the island is unknown because many remain buried in the Rano Raraku quarry on the island’s south shore, where the statues ...