One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues ... touching the moai is illegal—and a source of spiritual life ...

The coastal winds whipped across my face as I craned my neck to see the 15 moai ... as the primary statue quarry (Credit: Volanthevist/Getty Images) Why the Rapanui chose to walk the statues ...

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.

Rapa Nui mayor said moai statues were left "totally charred ... Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the island, whose main source of income is tourism, received 160,000 visitors a year, but tourists ...

For centuries, the famous statues that dot the coast of the remote Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific have both fascinated and puzzled archaeologists. Now, a team of archaeologists claims ...

Rapanui Municipality/AFP via Getty Images A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week ...

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.