"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 ...

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.

Moai in Rapa Nui National Park on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island, Chile. There are approximately 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, but the recent discovery has excited ...

Though similar monoliths have been found throughout Polynesia, Rapa Nui’s statues are unique in their size and solemn faces. Photograph by Susan Seubert One theory of how moai were transported ...

In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also ... there’s one moai in the lake, there’s probably more.” The new moai is smaller than the nearly 1,000 other statues on the island ...

professor of archeology at the University of Arizona who has been studying the statues and the Rapa Nui for 20 years. The tallest moai statue on the island is 33 feet tall and on average ...

professor of archeology at the University of Arizona who has been studying the statues and the Rapa Nui for 20 years. The tallest moai statue on the island is 33 feet tall and on average ...

The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui ... moai is unique, bearing a name of its own. When the moai were carved, the island was divided according to its clans, but most of the statues ...

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as ...

A new moai statue has been found on Rapa Nui, a Chilean territory also known as Easter Island, prompting excitement among researchers that there may yet be others waiting to be discovered.

Afterward, the Rapa Nui would transport the statues across the island to the coast and place them on a platform (ahu), turning the Moai away from the water to face inland to protect their communities.