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 ...

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

archaeologists have discovered that parts of the statues have become buried into the sediment and rock. A team of experts at UCLA developed the Easter Island Statue Project to better study and ...

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 ...

A viral Reddit post has claimed that one of the Easter Island Moai ... The Moai statues consist of large heads and smaller bodies, which are often buried beneath the ground from the neck down.

Easter Island, situated around 2,200 miles ... gradually falls off," Edwards said. "The exposed statue erodes and crumbles while what is buried remains intact. With fire, this process intensifies ...

But is it true that far from being just heads, the Easter Island statues actually have bodies buried deep in the ground?

A new moai statue has been found on Rapa Nui, a Chilean territory also known as Easter Island ... is smaller than most others on the island, was found buried in a dry lake bed.

These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous ...

Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos ... head and shoulders above ground while their bodies remain buried in the soil. Several statues were left face-down, possibly because ...

Some are buried from the neck down ... In this Polynesian territory that now belongs to Chile and is widely known as Easter Island, the loss of any moai would be a blow to ancient cultural ...

Fire swept through part of the national park on Chile’s Easter Island this ... Some of the statues were spared the full effects of the fire because they were buried partially underground.