Click image to see more photos. (EISP/EISP) Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to ...

Updated: Oct 10, 2022 / 07:49 AM MDT View of Moais — stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture — in Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on August 5, 2022.

The fire — caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano — started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as 'Moai' which were created ...

Dried Up Lake Uncovers New Easter Island Statue: Here's How Many Moais Have Been Discovered So Far About 400 of the island’s 1,000 moai are inside the volcanic crater or on its outer slopes, and ...