There's more than meets the eye with Easter
Island's famous stone heads. As it turns out, the sculptures have bodies buried
beneath the Earth. Although this discovery is new to the general public,
archaeologists have known about it for over a century.
Easter Island, located almost 2,00 miles off
the coast of Chile, is one of the most isolated islands in the world. The
statues, also referred to as "moai" were carved from volcanic rock
between 1250 and 1500 CE by ancient Polynesians.
The tallest of the statues reaches almost 33
feet and weighs an incredible 82 tons! They are believed to represent the
indigenous people's ancestors, and are covered in indecipherable writing called
petroglyphs.
An excavation team documenting the carvings
on the famous statues have been working on preserving the stone that was once
covered beneath the ground. Watch the video below to learn more amazing facts
about this ancient civilization!
