As with many things on Earth, time took its toll on the statues and buried them in sediment and rocks, hiding and preserving the torsos of the Easter Island heads. However, a team of ...

You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing [email protected] The lost civilization of Easter Island may have chosen the location of the iconic moai heads to signal where fresh water was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Easter Island’s monumental stone heads are well-known ... Archaeologists have documented 887 of the massive statues, known as moai, but there may up as many as 1,000 of them on the island.

A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai ... AD from local stone. The heads may be the most famous ...