A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is ...

Island heads’ are famous worldwide but also mysterious. Who made these stone statues? How were they transported? What do they ...

A team of experts at UCLA developed the Easter Island Statue Project to better study and preserve the artefacts. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Through this work researchers excavated ...

On Easter Island, which lies some 3,500 kilometers ... the resemblance to Rapa Island in the Bass Islands. The famous head statues were carved centuries earlier by the Rapa Nui people in ...

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most often ... Still, remnants of their former glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across ...

Aforest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island has charred some of its ... The marquee attraction is the roughly 900 oversized head-and-torso statues carved from hardened volcanic ash.

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large ... In one instance, a platform even reuses the head of a Moai statue. Dr. Dale F. Simpson Jr., an archaeologist who has studied the Moai ...

Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground ... the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai statues. We first saw it from above while walking through Rano Raraku.

Several iconic Easter Island head statues suffered “irreparable” damage in a fire that may have been the result of arson, according to local officials. “More than 100 hectares were affected ...

"The damage to some of the giant head statues is “irreparable and with ... More than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands.

Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is the home of several replica Moai head ... statue, even though they are hollow on the inside, unlike the actual statues found on Easter Island.

In this Polynesian territory that now belongs to Chile and is widely known as Easter Island ... were carved, the island was divided according to its clans, but most of the statues were created ...