"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 ...

It’s no mystery that the world’s greatest riddles still fascinate and their invariably spectacular locations all await the ...

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he ... glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across the island’s shore. These moai may not be as ...

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 ...

Easter Island in the southeast Pacific is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. In February, archaeologists found ...

A new Easter Island moai statue has been discovered in a drying-up lake in the Rano Raraku volcanic crater on the island by researchers working on marshland restoration, The Guardian reported.

A new moai was discovered after a volcano crater ... Jo Anne Van Tilburg, an archeologist and the director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told Fox Weather that years of harsh climate ...

A new Moai, one of Easter Island’s iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said.

A previously undiscovered moai statue has been found that the bottom of a dried-up lagoon. These monolithic human figures have become an iconic characteristic of Easter Island, and were carved by ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed.