Stock image of some Moai statues on Easter Island. One viral Reddit post claims that the largest ever carved statue was never erected, and measured 70 feet tall.

About one mile east of Rano Raraku volcano is Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai statues. We first saw it from above while walking through Rano Raraku.

Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and conservationists in this tiny, ...

The monoliths are enormous, too, with the largest statue, named Moai Paro, standing at 32 feet (10 meters) tall and weighing 90 tons (82 metric tons), the Easter Island Statue Project reported.

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

Now, people can see his replicas of the famed Moai (Moe-eye) statues, better known as Easter Island heads.Easter Island, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is home to about 50 descendants ...

The average moai statue measures 13 feet (although the largest reaches a whopping 70 feet) ... While we don’t know how Easter Island’s moai were made, we all but certainly know who made them.

Easter Island’s iconic statues remain at risk after devastating fire. Recent blazes chewed through the heritage site, causing “irreparable” damage to hundreds of Rapa Nui’s sacred moai.

A potentially deliberate wildfire on Easter Island has wrought irreparable damage to the ancient moai head statues that dot the landscape of the Rapa Nui Natural Park, near the island’s Rano ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed.

The are some 1,000 giant moai and carvings, the largest of which weighs 74 tonnes and stands 10m tall. Easter Island is a Unesco World Heritage-listed island and lies some 3,500km (2,170 miles ...