One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire ...

A new moai was discovered after a volcano crater lake dried up. Source Comunidad Ma'u Henua HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A new moai was found on Easter Island in the ...

Still, remnants of their former glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across the island’s shore. These moai may not be as old as other famous monoliths ...

The fire – caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano – started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were ...

Moai in Rapa Nui National Park on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island, Chile. There are approximately 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, but the recent discovery has excited ...

The new find is one of the moai, the famous stone figures located around the island. Researchers hope to find other ancient artifacts, including additional moai and tools, at the site, called Rano ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed on the tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...