But is it true that far from being just heads, the Easter Island statues actually have bodies buried deep in the ground?

The head is traditionally thought to contain ... South Coast of Rapa Nui The members of the Spanish expedition to Easter Island in 1770 were the first to record their descriptions of the scoria ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the ... of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape. The moai and ceremonial ...

Examines theories about how the stone heads of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were carved and raised. New research challenges previous ideas about the history, innovation and resilience of the Rapa Nui ...

In the 1950s, a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist named Thor Heyerdahl took artifacts and human remains from Easter ...