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 ...

A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter ... Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved ... and the significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.

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 ...