Easter Island has about 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered throughout the island. Most historians agree that ...

A controversial new theory suggests the iconic Easter Island statues could be thousands of years older than previously ...

Recent tradition supports this theory, as sledge transportation ... terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet ...

At the Easter Island site, the NOVA team drags the concrete moai on its specially designed ... the space it required. In theory, everyone could push from alongside, behind, or atop the rock ...

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 ...

Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo Anne Van Tilburg believes the moai were built to honor ancestors and chieftains, or for ritual use to commune with gods, she told PBS. National Geographic ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just ...

A new theory about who built the iconic human ... parts of Polynesia as well as Easter Island.' However, the Easter Island Moai are so different from the anthropomorphic figures in the Marquesas ...

Graham Hancock's new theory claims a lost civilization ... Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu ...

A shocking new theory regarding the Easter Island heads could rewrite ... and songs that we see today." Easter Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the large stone heads. Hancock thinks settlers ...