The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, ... "The moai thus mediates between sky and earth, people and chiefs, ... Width at Head: 4.86 feet (1.48 meters) ...

Practically everyone has seen the iconic images of the Easter Island heads. What you may not have known is that those Easter Island heads actually have hidden buried bodies.

It's thought the head had been entombed for centuries, as the lake had been "at least three metres deep" for the past 200-300 years, making it impossible for it to have been moved there in that time.

Carving a small wooden moai in his yard, Andreas Pakarati, who goes by Panda, is part of that renewal. “I’m the first professional tattooist on the island in 100 years,” he says, soft eyes ...

For centuries, the purpose of the massive stone statues has remained one of ancient humanity’s best-kept secrets. The Easter Island moai heads have beguiled explorers, researchers, experts and ...

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 ...

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.