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 ...

According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

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.

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... at a platform called Ahu Akivi with its seven giant statues. There, he could recount the story in the right way.

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 ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter ... the island has been the subject of intrigue. Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, having spent many hours planning to make the most of a week on this ...

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 ...