Easter Island will open an investigation to determine the cause and full extent of the wildfire as well as the damage to the Moai statues to see what repairs can be done.

A potentially deliberate wildfire on Easter Island has wrought irreparable damage to the ancient moai head statues that dot the landscape of the Rapa Nui Natural Park, near the island’s Rano ...

Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Sunday, Nov, 27, 2022. Each monolithic human figure carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people ...

Easter Island's fabled monumental carved moai statues were charred after a forest fire tore through part of the island, affecting nearly 60 hectares of land.

Scientists on Easter Island say they have uncovered another of its iconic moai head statues after a lake in an extinct volcano dried up. The monolithic head carving was found on its side submerged ...

Researchers believe the giant moai statues on Easter Island were “walked” into place using their own immense weight as leverage.

Easter Island's iconic moai statues standing in a row. (Photo by De Agostini) De Agostini via Getty Images A forest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island has charred some of its iconic ...

A Tullahoma sculptor has turned garden-sized Moai statues into life-size replicas of the famed Easter Island figures.

Rapa Nui, the Chilean territory widely known as Easter Island, is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth.

View of Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- in Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on August 5, 2022. (Photo by PABLO COZZAGLIO/AFP via Getty Images) ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.

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 centuries ago… ...