Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the famous large stone heads - that are believed to have been carved 900 years ago.

And the heads aren’t Easter Island’s only mystery. Let’s learn more about the island’s secrets.

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the ... of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape. The moai and ceremonial ...

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“This is something produced from my culture. It’s Rapanui.” He shakes his head. “How did they do it?” Easter Island covers just 63 square miles. It lies 2,150 miles west of South America ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...