The Moai statues of Easter Island are a key part of the island’s history and ancient civilizations. Nearly 1,000 of these statues were built starting in the 13th century A.D. by the Rapa Nui people.

Hancock also proposes that the statues on Easter Island are likely much older than ... which suggests that a highly advanced ancient civilization existed before the end of the last Ice Age.

They were rolled down from an ancient volcano Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the ...

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 ...

Graham Hancock's new theory claims a lost civilization built the Easter Island statues more than 11,000 years old. (photo credit: f11photo. Via Shutterstock) A new theory about who built the giant ...

But many more made it to their platforms intact. The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui ...

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 ...

Between A.D. 1000 and 1600, the people of Easter Island, a small island isolated in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, carved about 900 massive statues from an ancient volcano. These austere-faced ...

In the southern Pacific Ocean, far off the coast of Chile, lies the remote island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... Rapa Nui is known for its large stone statues called moai.

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