Easter Island is home to nearly 1,000 towering moai statues — some weighing up to 80 tons. Traditional explanations suggest they were carved and moved using simple tools. But certain structures, like ...

The truck rolled down a slope and hit an ahu, a ceremonial platform where one of the island’s famous statues was already on its side. By Christine Hauser and Alan Yuhas The statues on Easter Island ...

Many of the statues not along the coast are in places that featured a resource vital to the communities that lived and worked there. It’s believed that the residents of Rapa Nui—the Indigenous name ...

One of Easter Island’s world-famous moai statues has been destroyed in an accident. A Chilean island resident was arrested on March 1 after his truck – a private vehicle, not a commercial one – ...

RAPA NUI, Chile — The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time. Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved ...

A viral Reddit post has claimed that one of the Easter Island Moai statues was carved, but was never erected, and would have been 72 feet tall. The Moai statues consist of large heads and smaller ...

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