Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large ... In one instance, a platform even reuses the head of a Moai statue. Dr. Dale F. Simpson Jr., an archaeologist who has studied the Moai ...

As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground ... the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai ...

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 ...

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 ...

He shakes his head. “How did they do it ... by UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of ...

The hundreds of mysterious moai statues around Easter Island are the primary draw for ... been fully restored with a pukao placed on its head and eyes added. The cylindrical pukao, which is ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific ... their beaks touching at the back of the statue's neck. On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks ...

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 ...

A shocking new theory regarding the Easter Island heads could rewrite the history of the iconic statues. It's now been claimed that the carvings are actually thousands of years older than ...