"He is but a skeleton of rebar," Rick Ryan said of the moai head — or what's left of it — that stood with an identical twin outside the doors of the Kahiki Supper Club from 1961 until it was ...

Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is the home of several replica Moai head statues. They stand dozens of feet tall along the CSX railroad that passes through the community ...

At latest count on the island, there are 1,043 complete moai, enormous statues with prominent heads made from volcanic stone. Contrary to popular belief, they aren’t just heads—they have ...

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 devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues ... painful to see how the Moai burned," said Francisco Haoa ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements ... damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were created by a Polynesian tribe over 500 years ...

Two moai are currently held at the museum. These are monolithic ancestral heads originating from Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, better known as Easter Island in English. The first moai ...

Now, people can see his replicas of the famed Moai (Moe-eye) statues, better known as Easter Island heads. Easter Island, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is home to about 50 ...

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...