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 ...

Damaged Moai statues are seen after a wildfire at a local park in Easter Island, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on October 7, 2022. . (Rapa Nui Municipality/Handout via ...

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.

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 ...

View of Moais — stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture — in Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on August 5, 2022.

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 ...