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.

The 16-foot moai head once spouted fire from its perch outside the beloved Polynesian restaurant. ... performances by a Columbus-based Polynesian dance company, and vendors selling tiki memorabilia.

"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 ...

Maybe this isn't a newsflash to everyone, but the Moai "heads" on Easter Island have bodies.Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

Six replica Moai heads, originally discovered on Easter Island in the South Pacific, sit stoic in Tullahoma, Tenn. They were created by local artist Steve Smith. (WKRN Photo) ...

The heads may be the most famous parts, but all the statues also have bodies. 95% of the figures were carved from compressed volcanic ash found on the side of the extinct Rano Raraku volcano.

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 ...

Scientists on Easter Island say they have uncovered another of its iconic moai head statues after a lake in an extinct volcano dried up. The monolithic head carving was found on its side submerged ...

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 ...