It’s Long Been Considered One of the Most Mysterious Places in the World. The Answer Was Hiding in Plain Sight.

Easter Island has long been misunderstood by the West. A new book by Mike Pitts sets the record straight.
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Easter Island mystery is SOLVED: Scientists finally pinpoint who built the stone heads 900 years ago

One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Easter Island may finally be solved - as scientists pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads over 900 years ago. In the past, researchers assumed that the 12 ...
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The truth behind the 'heads' of Easter Island

For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as ...
CNN

Easter Island quarry reveals how Polynesians made enigmatic stone statues

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought ...
The New York Times

Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation. The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of ...