We passed more moai face down on the ground. Turning around and looking back at Rano Raraku offered another new perspective ...

The moai are carved out of volcanic stone. Most face inland, except for seven that face the ocean. In February, scientists found a previously undiscovered statue in a dry lake bed inside a ...

The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous Rapa Nui people to embody the spirit of a prominent ancestor, with each considered to be the person's living incarnation.

The moai lay face down on the sledge. Mulloy suggested that by inching the individual legs forward in bipedal fashion, the moai could then be rocked forward using the outward curve of its belly as ...

These moai may not be as old as other famous monoliths ... The hypothesis is supported by the fact that pretty much all of them face inland, to the residencies of their original builders.

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

I didn’t expect to see its famous moai statues face down in the dirt. Nor did I think I would have to drive through a huge herd of cows to reach them. But the most surprising thing about my ...

The museum has two moai statues which were taken from the Chilean territory of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, in 1868. The online campaign began after an influencer encouraged his followers to "spam ...

However, almost all of the moai on the slopes — through which a path winds — face south. That makes it a poor choice at lunchtime when the sun is in the northern sky and behind the moai.