Easter Island is one of the most ... according to National Geographic. The statues were built in the late 1500s and early 1600s, though some date back as far as 1300. Polynesians likely began ...

Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Hancock also proposes that the statues on Easter Island are likely much older than ... of the island to rule out a human presence that far back, and I doubt if anyone has looked specifically ...

Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos ... Some unfinished multi-ton statues remain attached to the ground ...

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads ... of the island to rule out a human presence that far back," Hancock added. Most historians maintain that the Moai ...

Their backs to the Pacific ... tested by UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of people.

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places ...

Today we're on an island ... statues would have taken days, and a large workforce. Hoa Hakananai'a would have stood on his platform with his giant stone companions in a formidable line, their ...

or perhaps DRAG IT on its back. Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries ...

The oldest moai dates back ... and the statues remain sacred vessels. Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only ...

Today we're on an island ... statues would have taken days, and a large workforce. Hoa Hakananai'a would have stood on his platform with his giant stone companions in a formidable line, their ...