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 ...

To the rest of us it is Easter Island ... Explorers write that at this time the island was littered with bones, so many bodies it was impossible to bury them all. And so in just a few short ...

A viral Reddit post has claimed that one of the Easter Island Moai statues was carved ... The Moai statues consist of large heads and smaller bodies, which are often buried beneath the ground ...

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 ...

and is known for the famed Easter Island “heads” (many of the bodies have been buried by erosion over the centuries). The research, which appears in the Journal of Archaeological Science ...

Easter Island is on lots of bucket lists. Who wouldn’t want the chance to visit one of the world’s most remote islands and take selfies with those ancient, stoic stone faces? Yet there’s ...

A fire on Easter Island caused severe damage ... but officials on the island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean say the full consequences are even more extensive The extent of the catastrophe ...