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 ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

How did the first inhabitants of Easter Island arrive? It is the most remote inhabited island on Earth. The coast of Chile lies 2,300 miles to the east, Tahiti 2,500 miles to the northwest ...

The researchers also used data from studies of extinct civilizations on Earth, like Easter Island, to inform these models. Their results suggested four different trajectories for civilization growth.

Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues called moai. The civilization that built these sculptures eventually collapsed, with deforestation often cited as a key factor. The islanders cut ...