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 ...

In other words, the population didn’t collapse. In fact, it was stable, thanks to their reliable agricultural techniques. This photo taken on April 5, 2024 shows a Moai stone statue on Easter ...

The restored moai statues of Ahu Tongariki are one of the more spectacular sites on Easter Island. Rano Raraku may have more moai, but most are partially buried, uncompleted, or face down in the ...

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.

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

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 ...