Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:32. Now we take you on a journey to Easter Island. It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, far into the Pacific, 2200 ...

Okinawans in Japan, part of a Blue Zone, live long due to their Moai tradition—small social groups offering financial and emotional support. This practice, along with healthy diets, exercise, and a ...

Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people -- remained untouched until recently.

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

Based on a 5-year excavation of two Moai found within the Easter Island quarry called Rano Raraku, ... Their existence is a marvel of human ingenuity -- and their meaning a source of some mystery.

We all know about those famous heads on Easter Island, but their origins are still largely a mystery. These large stone ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

There are around 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island. All figures are monolithic human faces that were carved out of volcanic rock approximately 500 years ago by the Polynesian tribe, Rapa Nui.

A new moai was found on Easter Island in the bed of a volcano crater lake, thanks to severe drought conditions in the area. The Pacific island, located roughly 2,175 miles west of the Chilean ...

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This is the land of the moai, iconic human statues unique to Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island – an isolated island around the size of Washington DC situated 3,500km ...