A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter ...

For centuries, the famous statues that dot the coast of the remote Easter Island in the southeastern ... why they were built in the first place. A team of researchers from Binghamton University ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited ... (around 22,000 pounds), according to National Geographic. The statues were built in the late 1500s and early 1600s, though some date back ...

The one-room house that José Antonio Tuki built on Easter Island for himself ... director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of people.

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 ...

The megalith is tied to a raft-like structure and the tank is built around the megalith ... I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the Easter Island statues, but could the stones that were ...

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 to their final ceremonial ahu ...

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 ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific Ocean ... and its placement - those are all things that matter." The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline ...

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 ...