Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter Island was inhabited about 12,000 years ago. Hancock's theory follows a 2008 study that found evidence of shrubs and ...

Dr. Frances R. Curcio traveled 28,105 nautical miles to Peru, Chile, Fiji, Australia, Cambodia, India, Tanzania, Egypt and ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large ... He pointed out that similar stone statues are found on multiple other islands, including Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands and the Raivavae ...

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 ...

In 1955, it was discovered that Moai, the ancient and mysterious giant heads on Easter Island, had very large bodies buried underneath the ground. Now, scientists and archaeologists believe they know ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui puzzle.

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited ... A 2019 study published in PLOS One, a journal by the Public Library of Science, found that the monuments were often constructed near sources ...

Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter Island was inhabited about 12,000 years ago. Hancock's theory follows a 2008 study that found evidence of shrubs ...

Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the famous large stone heads - that are believed to have been carved 900 years ago.