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 ...

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

Easter Island has about 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered throughout the island. Most historians agree that the Moai statues were carved by Polynesians approximately 900 years ago.