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 ...

Within Chilean territory, Easter Island is located in one of the most isolated places in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and can only be reached by plane—2,200 miles west of Chile. But though it is ...

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads ... to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders ...

“This is something produced from my culture. It’s Rapanui.” He shakes his head. “How did they do it?” Easter Island covers just 63 square miles. It lies 2,150 miles west of South America ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... The heavy rectangular head is huge, almost as wide as the torso below. The overhanging brow is one straight line, running ...