Below are some of the theories sent in to this Web site about ways to move and erect the moai. I am a fifth-grade student and have been researching Easter Island for my school project. I have read ...

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 ...

Recent tradition supports this theory, as sledge transportation was ... Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet, nine tons. Method: Trying the same method as ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...

was partly right about his theory. In 1947, late Thor Heyerdahl controversially claimed that Easter Island's famous statues were similar to those at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. And to prove his ...

Now, Easter Island offers similar evidence ... it may be more stable than we thought. This supports a theory that mantle plumes and the surrounding sub-lithospheric mantle—where these crystals ...