"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 ...

Jo Anne Van Tilburg, an archeologist and the director of the Easter Island Statue Project ... a lot of mapping and documentation of the quarry between 2018 and 2019, and what we found was ...

An estimated several hundred moai are in that area, as well as in the quarry where the stone used to carve the sculptures is extracted. While there is no consensus on when Easter Island was first ...

which once served as a quarry for the construction of the large statues carved out of basalt. Easter Island has about 900 moai statues scattered throughout the island, with 386 in Rapa Nui ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for ... because many remain buried in the Rano Raraku quarry on the island’s south shore, where the statues were ...

Aforest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island has charred some of its iconic ... where several hundred maoi are located, as well as the quarry where the volcanic stone was extracted.

New moai discovered on Easter Island, according to Ma'u Henua vice ... in the lake, at the statue quarry," he said. "There have been no moai found in the dry bed or in what was previously a ...

There are nearly 1,000 moai on Easter Island made from volcanic tuff ... in the lake, at the statue quarry," he said. "There have been no moai found in the dry bed or in what was previously ...

Hundreds of the heads are located in this area, alongside the quarry from which the stone to make them was excavated. Easter island, also known as Rapa Nui, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the ...