A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter Island ...

Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

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 ...

In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders undertake this colossal statue-building ... of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues ... the islanders started putting giant red hats on the statues. The research team ...

The last episode for the week aired yesterday (Friday, January 17) and players had to carry statues up a large hill in ...

Easter Island covers just 63 square miles ... resilience and ingenuity—one example being their ability to walk giant statues upright across miles of uneven terrain. When the Polynesian settlers ...

Today we're on an island far out ... Moving these statues would have taken days, and a large workforce. Hoa Hakananai'a would have stood on his platform with his giant stone companions in a ...

(photo credit: f11photo. Via Shutterstock) A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues ...

A shocking new theory regarding the Easter Island heads could rewrite the history of the iconic statues. It's now been claimed that the carvings are actually thousands of years older than ...