As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham ...

Approximately one thousand statues were produced ... The post The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: Uncovering the Secrets of ...

First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ... She reported, "A total of 887 monolithic statues has been located by the survey to date on Easter Island...397 are still in situ ...

Easter Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the large stone heads. Hancock thinks settlers ... criticism from experts who pointed out similar statues on surrounding Pacific Islands, which ...

In the spring of 1998, I was asked to take part in the filming of the NOVA film "Easter Island," during which experts examined hand methods for moving and erecting moai, the huge stone statues for ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island ... Moving these 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 ...

Located in the South Pacific Ocean, thousands of kilometers from the west coast of South America, the island is best known ...

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 ...

(photo credit: f11photo. Via Shutterstock) A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues ...