Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen has an exquisite track record, having “discovered” both the Polynesian islands of Bora Bora and Maupiti. However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most ...
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How Did Easter Island Get Its Statues? The Fascinating Story of the Moai
Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...
Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research. The iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working independently of each other, ...
Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...
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