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Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:32. Now we take you on a journey to Easter Island. It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, far into the Pacific, 2200 ...
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 ...
Easter Island's famous statues suffer 'irreparable' damage after huge blaze sweeps the historic site. Forest fires swept through nearly 60 hectares of land, including some of Easter Island's ...
A forest fire broke out Monday and swept through 247 acres of the Rapa Nui National Park, which covers 40% of Easter Island, officials there said.
Boy, 8, dies after being struck in head by statue at luxury resort: police. by KPHO/CBS Newspath. Thu, December 5th 2024 at 3:03 AM. Updated Thu, December 5th 2024 at 9:59 AM. 8. VIEW ALL PHOTOS ...
The Danish museum said it had purchased the head in 1970 for 365,500 Swiss francs, or about $85,000, from Robert Hecht, an American dealer who would become famous — and later infamous — as one ...
Archaeologists have uncovered the "beautiful" head of a marble statue thought to depict an ancient Greco-Roman god. A team led by Natalia Poulou of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki found ...
Chilean and local authorities were working to assess damage to famous stone statues on Easter Island after a fire sparked earlier this week on the remote territory. The fire, which began Tuesday ...
A famous Liverpool statue photographed by tourists hundreds of times each day used to go "unrecognised" before receiving a makeover in the late 1990s. Said to be one of the most photographed ...
The statue is called the "Younger Memnon" and depicts the pharaoh Ramesses II. He ruled from 1279 to 1213 B.C. It is an 8.8-foot-tall broken head and torso of a statue that is now housed in the ...
The satirical statue of a vaguely lascivious Trump appeared Sunday morning at Southwest 6th Avenue between Alder and Morrison streets, next to the bronze nude made famous in the 1970s by a poster ...