WATCH: Tiny Easter Island deals with giant trash problem Now, in Rapa Nui, people can trace a family history just by knowing their last name and where the moai named after their ancestors were placed.

Like most visitors to Easter Island, I was very interested in seeing a sample of the approximately 1,000 mysterious massive monolithic Moai (statues) carved from volcanic tuff between 1000 and 1600.

A new maoi statue has been discovered on Easter Island. ... According to museum records, it's 18 inches tall and is being displayed in the Byrne Family Gallery of Maritime Art, ...

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the islanders call it, and these 15 were standing on the Ahu Tongariki plinth, the largest ceremonial structure on the remote ...

French-born artist Delphine Poulain attends the burial of a friend at the cemetery in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Poulain never formally studied art.

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the height of a human and weigh up to 14 tons (12,700 kilograms).

Easter Island, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is home to about 50 descendants of Polynesian natives and nearly 900 statues ranging in size from 4 to 72 feet tall.

Ukrainian stone statues—likened to Easter Island's Moai—destroyed during Russian invasion Dating from the ninth to the 13th century, the stelae were once considered sacred Sophia Kishkovsky ...

A number of Easter Island's iconic 'Moai' stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week, the island's mayor told Reuters on Friday.