According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island ... the site on the side of Monte Terevaka, Rapa Nui's tallest volcano, still offered a nice view. Ahu Akivi is about four ...

A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological ... However, Hancock's theory challenges this view, proposing a much earlier date for the ...

“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I don’t know what race, today degenerate or vanished; its great remains an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

ROCK IT, standing up, side-to-side ... 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 ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter ... the island has been the subject of intrigue. Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without ...

According to a survey by archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... of time and resource to ensuring that the gods are on their side, but few societies have ever done it on such a heroic scale ...

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 stayed for one day. By the time ...