Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies ... Moving these heavy statues was a big challenge. Scholars think they used ramps and a method called parbuckling.

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

Between A.D. 1000 and 1600, the people of Easter Island, a small island isolated in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, carved about 900 massive statues from an ancient volcano. These austere-faced ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads ... to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders ...

“This is something produced from my culture. It’s Rapanui.” He shakes his head. “How did they do it?” Easter Island covers just 63 square miles. It lies 2,150 miles west of South America ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... To see dozens of maoi in various stages of being carved, head to the Rano Raraku volcano. Being so close to the ...

Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID-19 restrictions ... These are carved human figures with oversized heads, often resting on huge stone pedestals called ahus.