which had indeed been excavating two of the statues' buried bodies since 2010. Photos of the dig posted on the project website, and older photos taken of full-bodied Easter Island statues that ...

As with many things on Earth, time took its toll on the statues and buried them in sediment and rocks, hiding and preserving the torsos of the Easter Island heads. However, a team of ...

These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous ...

On this Easter Sunday, we thought it would be fitting to take you on a journey to Easter Island. It's one of the ... their mana flowed out of their bodies into the moai. Pedro Edmunds Paoa ...

gazed perennially across Easter Island. Their bodies were etched with enigmatic symbols, and their faces, with prominent brows and elongated noses, seemed both comfortingly human and formidably ...

Easter Island’s gargantuan stone statues walked ... Furthermore, the statues' relatively broad bodies and elongated heads make them stable when walking. “What’s cool is that their shape ...

Great Land, the navel of the world Though it is not easy to get there, the island is of great interest to tourists. For example, a flight from Poland to Easter Island with two layovers takes at ...

Easter Island has long been a bucket ... That’s a huge burden on an island with only about 6,000 full-time residents, not to mention one where water and other natural resources are in limited ...

Moai statues on Easter Island Photo by Andia / Universal Images Group / Getty Images Last week, a fire spread through Easter Island and caused permanent damage to the area’s iconic statues ...

HANGA ROA, Easter ... over the island and in 2016, the Chilean state agreed to start transitioning control of the park. A locally chosen Ma'u Henua council is set to take full administrative ...

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

The governor of Easter Island has urged the British Museum to return a huge statue, kept in London for 150 years, claiming that the English “have our soul.” The 8-foot-tall basalt figure ...