In his new Netflix series, Graham Hancock suggested that the Easter Island heads were built by his long-lost ancient civilization. But archaeologists have disagreed.

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.

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Hancock also suggests the stone statues are older than the platforms ... which share striking similarities with Easter Island's Moai. The statues feature similar poses withhands clasped around ...

This UNESCO-protected Chilean island is best known for its moai, hundreds of stone statues scattered around the landscape. Dating from between AD 1100 and 1680, some are almost whole figures, some are ...

Tossup for both teams, what island contains the town of Hanga Roa, is inhabited by the Rapa Nui people, and is a Chilean possession that contains large, stone Moai statues? (bell dinging ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped ... damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.

2,400-year-old earthworks revealed as predating stone moai statues of Rapa Nui and megalithic Nan Madol in Micronesia. Palauan tourism official Lelly Obakerbau shakes her head and motions at the ...

[Harry Pearl/BenarNews] Records show the monuments predate the World Heritage-listed giant stone moai figures on Rapa Nui – also called Easter Islands – in Chile and the megalithic basalt stone ...

Home to the mysterious Moai statues, Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. These giant stone heads, carved by the Rapa Nui people, continue to puzzle archaeologists.