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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ... and its placement - those are all things that matter." The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along ...

Among 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 to their final ceremonial ahu ...

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.

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 ...