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 ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

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 ...

The Moai statues of Easter Island have some of the best views of the night sky on Earth. Sometimes a photo can captivate so powerfully that you are transported to another place and time.

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 ...

“Easter Island offers much more than gigantic and mystic stone statues,” said Explora’s ... dinner in town comes with a view at Te Moai Sunset. For traditional Polynesian cuisine—with ...

Little else is known about the markings yet. Detailed markings are visible. Picture: The Easter Island Statue Project There are 887 huge statues carved between AD 100 and 1800 — which are up to ...

Families that inhabit Easter Island compete in an annual event, Hanga Roa, sometime in February. Tales are told about the two tribes, the long-eared and the short-eared people, from which modern-day ...

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 ...

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 ...