Damaged Moai statues are seen after a wildfire at a local park, in Easter Island SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A number of Easter Island's iconic 'Moai' stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is, it's ...

SANTIAGO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Chile's Easter Island received its first group of tourists on Thursday after closing its borders for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Easter Island, ...

EASTER ISLAND, Chile — Carlos Paoa was living in California when his sister wrote to tell him that some of the big stone statues back home on Easter Island were being set upright again and restored.

Chileans faced a poser. As possessors of Latin America’s only South Seas colony, ought they not ask for membership in the new U.N. Trusteeship Council? In Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, ...

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. The ...

A wildfire began on Tuesday and swept through more than 148.26 acres. Rapanui Municipality/AFP via Getty Images A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage ...

Chile's Easter Island received its first group of tourists on Thursday after closing its borders for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. SANTIAGO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Chile's Easter ...