A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

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Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

You're investing that stone with some sort of emotive power, some sort of presence. That thing, that way of making a sculpture, is a religious activity. What actually the Easter Island sculpture ...

Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with ... a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water and protect crops from the wind. Treatments include bamboo therapy ...

Is there a more enigmatic island than Rapa Nui (Easter Island), deforested and depopulated and studded with giant stone ...

He later served aboard the USS Mohican, which visited Easter Island in 1886 to collect large stone sculptures, known as moai, for the Smithsonian Institute. Cooke’s Smithsonian report repeatedly ...

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is one of the most isolated places ... While the Rapa Nui are best known for their Moai, monolithic stone statues of deified human ancestors, a lesser known marvel ...

Documentary exploring how new evidence is challenging everything we thought we knew about Easter Island and the nearly 900 giant stone statues scattered across this remote Pacific island.