Witness the incredible craftsmanship at Rano Raraku - the birthplace of the iconic moai statues that have captivated the ...

"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 stone heads called moai that dot its hills and coastline. They were carved ...

The statue was found on February 21 by a team of scientific volunteers from three Chilean universities collaborating on a project to restore the marshland in the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano.

Moai are distinctive monolithic carved stone figures with elongated faces and no legs that were mostly quarried from tuff, a kind of volcanic ash, at the Rano Raraku volcano. This Moai is 1.60 ...

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 ...

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 largest discovered moai, named “El Gigante,” is one that never made it out of Rano Raraku—it is 69 feet tall and is thought to weigh about 200 metric tons.

Damaged Moai statues are seen after a wildfire at a local park in Easter Island, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on October 7, 2022. . (Rapa Nui Municipality/Handout via ...

A moai statue stands Nov. 27 near the Rano Raraku volcano on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. AP The sun rises Nov. 26 behind a line of moais statues on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or ...

Rapa Nui said in a statement on its official Facebook page on Thursday: “More than 100 hectares (247 acres) were affected in the Rano Raraku sector which includes the wetland and moai sector ...

A fire blazed across Easter Island on October 5, scorching the landscape and damaging many of the island's 1,000 moai statues.. The fire burned the land near Rano Raraku, an extinct volcanic ...

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 ...