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

The statue was found by a team of scientific volunteers collaborating on a project to restore the marshland in the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano.

Jo Anne Van Tilburg, an archeologist and the director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told Fox Weather that years of harsh climate conditions, including drought and grass fires, led to the ...

Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai - one of the Pacific island's distinctive stone statues.

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 ...

The newest Easter Island statue was found lying on its side and is just over 5 feet tall. Carbon-14 dating will be used to assess its age.

Easter Island and Its Mystical Moai Statues The Moai statues of Easter Island are a key part of the island’s history and ancient civilizations.

According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Rapa Nui, the Chilean territory widely known as Easter Island, is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth.

The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time. Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago… ...