Damaged Moai statues are seen after a wildfire at a local park in Easter Island, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on October 7, 2022. . (Rapa Nui Municipality/Handout via ...

While there is no consensus on when Easter Island was first inhabited, it is thought Polynesians settled the island around the 12th century. The 887 known statues, measuring up to 32ft (10m) tall ...

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 ...

News; World news; Easter Island; Mysterious new Easter Island statue revealed after volcanic crater lake dries up A team discovered the maoi head carving submerged in mud while carrying out work ...

Hundreds of the iconic head-and-torso statues were damaged in a blaze thought to be set on purpose. ... Easter Island Statues Charred In Forest Fire — Arson Suspected.

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

View of Moais—stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture—on the Ahu Tongariki site on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. Photo by Gregory Boissy/AFP/Getty Images.

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.

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.