Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited ... told "Good Morning America." The statue is just over 5 feet tall and was found lying on its side in a lake that has been drying up for several ...

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.

the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai statues. We first saw it from above while walking through Rano Raraku.

Hancock also proposes that the statues on Easter Island are likely much older than ... when global sea levels rose by 400 feet, submerging low-lying and fertile areas where humans likely lived.

Thor Heyerdahl has estimated that the distance that can be covered using this method in rough terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet ...

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 ...

All the energy and resources that went into the moai—which range in height from four to 33 feet and in weight ... director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons ... She reported, "A total of 887 monolithic statues has been located by the survey to date on Easter Island...397 are still in situ in ...

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 ...

The statues were placed on specially built ... There is one unfinished in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall - how they ever would have erected it goodness only knows.

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 ...