Paul Trachtman Editor’s Note: This article was adapted from its original form and updated to include new information for Smithsonian’s Mysteries ... Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

It is riddled with mystery," said archaeologist Dr. Dale ... Hancock rebuffed the criticism, suggesting the Easter Island heads are independent of other similar statues and do not share many ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

The discovery of these ancient zircons on Easter Island might, therefore, solve two geological mysteries at once. First, it gives new evidence for an ancient volcanic plateau. Second, it links ...

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