Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues ... These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous quarry of ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the ... to rule out a human presence that far back, and I doubt if anyone has looked specifically ...

or perhaps DRAG IT on its back. 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 ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island ... heads and parts of their bodies. The moai at Ahu Nau ...

Easter Island is one ... though some date back as far as 1300. Polynesians likely began inhabiting the island around 1000 CE. The purpose of the moai remains a mystery to researchers.

Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Graham Hancock's new theory claims a lost civilization built the Easter ... of the island to rule out a human presence that far back," Hancock added. Most historians maintain that the Moai statues ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... and no one is sure where exactly they came from. The oldest moai dates back to 1300, and among the Rapa Nui people ...

On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the ... Decades ago he himself helped get the moai at Anakena back upright.

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...