This HD video documentary reveals how Easter Island’s Moai statues were constructed by experimenting with ancient engineering method and mysterious traditions, modern archaeological scientists and engineers try and recreate and decipher the secrets of the Easter Island statues. The scientists explain how and why they were erected, with commentary on its design and purpose. The statues are carved stone human figures with over-sized heads, often resting on massive rock platforms called ahus buried underground. There are 1,000 stone statues that exist on the island, 30 feet tall, weighing a colossal 75 tons. The magnificent art stone statues are scattered about the mysterious barren landscape, in the mountains and close to the ocean. To early European explorers the amazing impact of these monstrous stone statues/ Without mechanical engines, how were they built? Without modern equipment how were the stones cut? Easter Island society and tradition was tribal and primitive culture, with black magic religious priests, chieftains writing strange hieroglyphic writing languages known as rongorongo. Yet this culture built monolithic statues not unlike Europe’s Stonehenge.

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