A forest fire that tore through part of Easter ... found on the side of the extinct Rano Raraku volcano. The native islanders carved the statues by hand and moved them around the island by tying ...

A team of experts at UCLA developed the Easter Island Statue Project to better ... The Rapa Nui carved the heads and front side of the statues while they were lying on the ground, then ...

A new theory about who built the iconic human-like figures on Easter Island has sent shockwaves ... In one instance, a platform even reuses the head of a Moai statue. Dr. Dale F.

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which ... former glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across the island’s shore. These moai may not be ...

The view east, with the moai seeming to tumble down the slopes of Rano Raraku and the Pacific Ocean as the backdrop, was one ...

A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2. A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular ...

The island's official Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, is Spanish for "Easter Island." It is 2,200 miles (3,600 km) west of continental Chile and 1,290 miles (2,075 km) east of the Pitcairn Islands.