Click image to see more photos. (EISP/EISP) Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous ...

Rapa Nui, Chile—or Easter Island—has monumental statues with massive, stone hats placed on top of them. A recent analysis of these stone hats, known as pukao, shows that the petroglyphs etched ...

The post Unlocking Easter Island: ... Driving your rental car about two miles east of Ovahe Beach will take you to Papa Vaka, the site of the largest petroglyph discovered on Easter Island.

Easter Island is famous for its moai ... with tribal leaders vying for control over resources and influence. Many petroglyphs depicting the Birdman cult's iconography were carved at Orongo ...

Maybe this isn't a newsflash to everyone, but the Moai "heads" on Easter Island have bodies. ... as well as remarkable photographs showing the petroglyphs and team members excavating.

These stunning pictures reveal the Easter Island head statues had huge bodies buried underground. And researchers have also discovered the monolithic statues have petroglyph engravings (pictures ...

The red dashed line is the estimated surface when petroglyphs, or rock art, were applied to the statue's back. This line also represents the point at which stone quarrying in the area probably ended.

the Rapa Nui carved them as an expression of an intricate culture that also included petroglyphs, tattooing and ancient Oceania’s only written language. One of many Easter Island mysteries is ...

Easter Island, Chile – I couldn’t wait to see the famous heads of Easter Island. The first ones I spotted were from the plane – black slabs sticking up like tombstones in a tawny, treeless ...

Easter Island’s hotels, restaurants and tour businesses take in more than $70 million every year. ... The petroglyphs portray the competitors as they race for the birds’ eggs.

The latest photographs from the Easter Island Statue Project reveal what lies beneath the surface of one of the most remote islands in the world -- the carved bodies of the 887 famous guardians.