The larger is a two-sided stone figure known as the Dreenan Figure, and the smaller is a single-sided figure known as the Lustymore Man. Boa Island is just one of the many, many islands in Lough ...

My favourite discovery was the diminutive but ever so mystical Caldragh cemetery on Boa Island. It's inexplicably home to Pagan stone carvings, including the back-to-back Janus figure (pictured).

The fire – caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano – started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were ...

As with many things on Earth, time took its toll on the statues and buried them in sediment and rocks, hiding and preserving the torsos of the Easter Island ... is the primary stone used for ...

An unknown number of the stone-carved statues have been affected by the blaze, Chile's cultural heritage undersecretary said. Easter Island has nearly 1,000 of the megaliths, known as moai.