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 ...

These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous quarry of Rano Raraku, about 95% of the statues were carved from soft ...

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 ...