Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos One journal ... Two of the statues are missing their heads and parts of their bodies. The moai at Ahu Nau Nau are among the best-preserved ...

According to a survey by archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you ...

Paul Trachtman Local artists are reviving the island's traditions. Tattooist Andreas "Panda" Pakarati displays a wooden moai he's just ... an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma ... The volcanic stone figures, called moai in ...

But the art which adorns Easter Island’s landscape, volcanoes and statues ... which they carved and marked as they did their own bodies and the moai statues. “These people must have had a ...

"On a crisp September morning, I rushed out to Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku in order to see the sun rise over the 15 moai." Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam.

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...