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

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 ...

The Easter Island statues, or moai, show the amazing skills of the Rapa Nui people. Between 1100 and 1650, they made nearly 900 huge stone sculptures. These statues, weighing 10 to 12 metric tons ...

However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he ... glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across the island’s shore. These moai may not be as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The moai were carved with stone tools ... The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui live ...

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 ...