The latest photographs from the Easter Island Statue Project reveal what lies beneath the surface of one of the most remote islands in the world -- the carved bodies of the 887 famous guardians.

Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

Click image to see more photos. (EISP/EISP) Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous ...

One expert says moai weigh on average between three to five tons. ullstein bild via Getty Images. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, an archeologist and the director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told ...

Easter Island statue uncovered in dried-up lake. 2 March 2023. Share Save. Kathryn Armstrong. ... who were working on a project to restore the marshland in the crater of the volcano.

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

Van Tilburg founded the Easter Island Statue Project in 1982 for field and museum inventory of all the island’s monolithic sculpture. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site ...

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.

The Easter Island statues, or moai, show the amazing skills of the Rapa Nui people. ... About 300 to 400 people worked together on this project, showing the importance of teamwork.

Easter Island’s iconic statues remain at risk after devastating fire. Recent blazes chewed through the heritage site, causing “irreparable” damage to hundreds of Rapa Nui’s sacred moai.

Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Sunday, Nov, 27, 2022. Each monolithic human figure carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people ...