In his new Netflix series, Graham Hancock suggested that the Easter Island heads were built by his long-lost ancient civilization. But archaeologists have disagreed.

Easter Island has about 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered throughout the island. Most historians agree that the Moai statues were carved by Polynesians approximately 900 years ago.

Depending on the criteria of what classifies a landmass as an island, between a few thousand and one million islands are ...

Tossup for both teams, what island contains the town of Hanga Roa, is inhabited by the Rapa Nui people, and is a Chilean possession that contains large, stone Moai statues? (bell dinging ...

The island, home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads known as Moai, has long fascinated archaeologists and historians. Hancock argues that the first settlers arrived on Easter Island about ...

A former British Museum employee has allegedly attacked the institution’s IT network, forcing partial closure at the end of last week.

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped ... damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said.

[Harry Pearl/BenarNews] Records show the monuments predate the World Heritage-listed giant stone moai figures on Rapa Nui – also called Easter Islands – in Chile and the megalithic basalt stone ...

2,400-year-old earthworks revealed as predating stone moai statues of Rapa Nui and megalithic Nan Madol in Micronesia. Palauan tourism official Lelly Obakerbau shakes her head and motions at the ...

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