Hunt's findings caused a stir among Easter Island scientists. John Flenley, a pollen analyst at New Zealand's University of Massey, accepts that the numerous rats would have some impact on the island.

easter island discovery: experts unravel mystery of ancient statues In 2016, research conducted on artifacts from the island questioned the theory that the ancient civilization there was destroyed ...

EASTER ISLAND'S ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY. Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, contains two lakes that are difficult to access, no streams and just one spring that is ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...

Easter Island Heads Mystery Solved? Rapa Nui Civilization Built Moai by Freshwater Locations. Published Oct 10, 2018 at 7:32 AM EDT Updated Oct 11, 2018 at 3:45 AM EDT.

Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel ...

Easter Island The history of Easter Island, its statues and its peoples, has long been shrouded in mystery. Some have suggested that aliens marooned on earth planted the statues as signals to ...

The Mystery of Easter Island - programme summary. On Easter Day 1722, Dutch explorers landed on Easter Island. A civilisation isolated by 4,000km of Pacific Ocean was about to meet the outside ...

Mystery of Easter Island. A team of scientists and volunteers test a theory on how the ancient stone statues were moved, using a 15-ton replica. Premiered: 11/8/12 Runtime: ...

In 1955, it was discovered that Moai, the ancient and mysterious giant heads on Easter Island, had very large bodies buried underneath the ground. Now, scientists and archaeologists believe they ...

Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The oldest lava deposits formed some 2.5 million years ago on top of an oceanic plate not much older than the volcanoes themselves.

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from Colombia’s Universidad de Los Andes, led by Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas ...