Chile's Easter Island has added a new head after a buried moai statue was unearthed from a volcanic lake bed.
The head-shaped megaliths called moai were carved centuries ago by the indigenous Polynesian Rapa Nui people. The island is also called Rapa Nui by the natives.
The team was working on marshland restoration for the Chilean nonprofit National Forest Corp. when the statue was noticed. Tuff is a light, porous rock formed by volcanic ash. The Rano Raraku volcano served as a rock quarry for most of the island’s moai statues.
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