Witness the mysterious beauty of Easter Island from above with this captivating drone footage. Soar over the iconic moai statues, the rugged coastline, and the volcanic landscapes. Marvel at the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues.

Hundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... and near-infrared data gathered by satellite. “What we use in this paper ...

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island ... moai are meant to signify, the prevailing theory is that they represent the Rapa Nui’s ancestral chiefs—leaders who, in their cosmological ...

Now, a novel study used satellite data to debunk this ... This photo taken on April 5, 2024 shows a Moai stone statue on Easter Island. Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.