Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements have been charred by a fire, according to local Indigenous and Chilean authorities. The fire – caused by the nearby Rano ...

A devastating fire has charred several of the famous statues on Easter Island, officials have said.. The country’s cultural heritage undersecretary, Carolina Perez Dattari, said that the blaze ...

The iconic Easter Island statues have been damaged in a fire, authorities say The sculpted figures on Rapa Nui, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, suffered "irreparable" damage.

When "Good Morning America" made a recent trip to Easter Island, the whole country got a look at a new moai statue (a stone statue of a human figure) found there.. And while Easter Island — or ...

Chile, a long, thin, picturesque wine-producing country on the Pacific, is no stranger to bad government. In the 1960s, Salvador Allende’s extreme left-wing policies brought the country to ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements have been charred by a fire, according to local Indigenous and Chilean authorities.

Easter Island's towering stone heads and other archaeological elements have been charred by a fire, according to local Indigenous and Chilean authorities. Sacred Easter Island statues suffer ...