In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—have unearthed a previously unknown statue. The new find is one of the moai, the famous stone figures located around ...

Island’s famous Moai statues remain one of the greatest archaeological enigmas in the world. This video questions the mainstream narrative that Polynesian settlers carved and transported over 1,000 ...

The Moai statues of Easter Island are a key part of the island ... These statues, weighing 10 to 12 metric tons, were over 70 ...

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans ... island's palm trees were felled to create devices to move the moai statues is probably incorrect.

Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet ... Using this method, 25 men were able to move the statue 150 feet in two minutes. Limitations: Jo Anne Van Tilburg writes, "This method was ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

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 ...

These statues were erected hundreds of years before the first European arrived on the island on Easter Sunday ... theory [that the moai] are containers into which these moving spirits can be ...

Easter Island’s towering stone ... Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were created by a Polynesian tribe ...