On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ...

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 ...

These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under ... The statues were placed on stone platforms called ahu. These platforms were not just tombs ...

Speaking on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, co-host Richard Osman shared a conversation he had with a Traitors executive, ...

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

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.

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has ...