Easter Island is one of ... a previously undiscovered statue in a dry lake bed inside a volcanic crater. "We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up," Terry Hunt, an archaeologist ...

Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island ... people. Up to 1,000 years ago, the islanders started putting giant red hats on the statues.

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 ...

Graham Hancock's new theory claims a lost civilization built the Easter Island statues more than 11,000 years old. (photo credit: f11photo. Via Shutterstock) A new theory about who built the giant ...

ROCK IT, standing up, side-to-side ... 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 ...

Their spirits were said to temporarily live inside the statues, and the statues remain sacred vessels. Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter ... the island opened up to tourists ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... Although we see him only from the waist up, he's almost nine feet (2.7m) high, and he dominates whatever gallery he's in.