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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...