In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—have unearthed a previously unknown statue. The new find is one of the moai, the famous stone figures located around ...

Easter Island in the southeast Pacific is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. In February, archaeologists found ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said.

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Little else is known about the markings yet. Detailed markings are visible. Picture: The Easter Island Statue Project There are 887 huge statues carved between AD 100 and 1800 — which are up to ...

Easter Island, situated around 2,200 miles west of Chile, is infamous for its "heads," or moai statues, created by the Rapa Nui people. The small island is only 63.2 square miles in area ...