have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile. But local artist Steve Smith is doing his part to change that by creating large and unusual monuments to ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other ... primarily due to the giant Moai monuments. Chile’s Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage Carolina Pérez Dattari said that officials from ...

Chile’s National Monuments Council is still evaluating the site and attempting to count how many of the statues were scorched by the fire. Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is a volcanic ...

The famous statues on Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — have suffered "irreparable ... Officials from Chile's National Monuments Council were "on the ground assessing damage" from ...

The effort to construct these monuments and move them around the ... Giant moai statues dot the grassy flanks of an extinct volcano on Easter Island.

Located over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected ...

The monuments, made of volcanic tuff ... ropes to rock them from side to side to their destination. Could the Easter Island statues have “walked” to where they stand today?

Landslides and ground collapses are destabilizing the soil that supports the monuments, threatening to bury them under rocks or plunge them into the sea. Several sites on Easter Island are now ...

The distant volcanic island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island ... It’s best known for its hundreds of giant head-shaped monuments, called moai, carved by the Rapa Nui people in roughly ...

the location of these monuments and other features makes tremendous sense. Known as the Rapa Nui, the indigenous people of Easter Island were believed to arrive on the remote island in the 10th ...