"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 ...

A new Moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, has been discovered in the bed of a dry lake in a volcano crater. The Moai was found by scientific volunteers working to restore marshland in ...

Easter Island’s mysterious "Moai" statues provide a big draw for tourists to the islands, which magnifies any loss of the stones. The island is host to over 1,000 of the statues, which can weigh ...

“It doesn’t have a lot of things to see.” Now, people can see his replicas of the famed Moai (Moe-eye) statues, better known as Easter Island heads. Easter Island, located in the middle of ...

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 ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire ...

Rapanui Municipality/AFP via Getty Images A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week ...

New moai discovered on Easter Island, according to Ma'u Henua vice president. A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week ...

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 ...

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 ...

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