Smith is semi-retired and works on art in his spare time – particularly sculptures. In about a year and a half, he created six replica Easter Island Moai heads with plans to add another one soon.

A potentially deliberate wildfire on Easter Island has wrought irreparable damage to the ancient moai head statues that dot the landscape of the Rapa Nui Natural Park, near the island’s Rano ...

A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities said Thursday. 'Nearly 60 hectares (148 acres) were ...

A new moai statue has been found buried in a dry lake bed on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The team who discovered the stone head believes that there could be even more in the lake bed ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and ... They were not individualized portrait sculptures, ... Width at Head: 4.86 feet (1.48 meters) ...

The 16-foot moai head once spouted fire from its perch outside the beloved Polynesian restaurant. Now it needs a lot of work to bring it back to life.

Around 900 Moai are known to exist after they were carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1250 and 1500. Most of the sculptures were carved from volcanic ash from the Rano Raraku volcano, where the ...

There are nearly 1,000 moai on Easter Island made from volcanic tuff, according to Dr. Terry Hunt, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona who has been studying the statues and the ...

Ancient sculpture discovered on Easter Island: 'GMA' gets 1st look The newly discovered Moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island. By Angeline Jane Bernabe, Erin Brady, Faryn Shiro and ...

The 16-foot moai head once spouted fire from its perch outside the beloved Polynesian restaurant. Now it needs a lot of work to bring it back to life.

There are nearly 1,000 moai on Easter Island made from volcanic tuff, according to Dr. Terry Hunt, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona who has been studying the statues and the ...