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.

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 ...

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) ...

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… ...

A forest fire broke out Monday and swept through 247 acres of the Rapa Nui National Park, which covers 40% of Easter Island, officials there said.

In his new Netflix series, Graham Hancock suggested that the Easter Island heads were built by his long-lost ancient civilization. But archaeologists have disagreed.