Just when experts thought they knew every moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, a dried-up lakebed kept them on ...

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The huge stone heads, some of them weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces—or why, or how, or ...

Easter Island, often called one of the most remote places on the planet, is peppered with the heads of more than 800 stone figures. Now archaeologists have discovered that beneath ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The huge stone head is framed by a wooden crate that casts shadows across its vacant eyes and elongated nose. After an odyssey of more than 80 years, the sculpture ...

Burke wore a dapper suit and Ward a bright floral dress. The cameras, however, were pointed at the couple’s headwear: papier-mâché versions of the stone moai heads of Easter Island.

Smith is semi-retired and works on art in his spare time – particularly sculptures. In about a year and a half, he created six replica Easter Island Moai heads with plans to add another one soon.