Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other ... primarily due to the giant Moai monuments. Chile’s Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage Carolina Pérez Dattari said that officials from ...

have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile. But local artist Steve Smith is doing his part to change that by creating large and unusual monuments to ...

Chile’s National Monuments Council is still evaluating the site and attempting to count how many of the statues were scorched by the fire. Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is a volcanic ...

Last October, a huge blaze that swept through part of Easter Island caused significant damage to the renowned stone moai monuments. Ninoska Avareipua Huki Cuadros, director of the Ma'u Henua ...

The famous statues on Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — have suffered "irreparable ... Officials from Chile's National Monuments Council were "on the ground assessing damage" from ...

Easter Island has nearly 1,000 of these statues ... cultural heritage said that officials from the country’s National Monuments Council (CNM) “are on the ground assessing the damages ...

EASTER ISLAND, Chile — Easter Island's towering ... primarily due to the giant Moai monuments. Chile's Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage Carolina Pérez Dattari said that officials from ...