Revealing the mystery of the statue on Easter Island

Unlike the old misconception, new information shows the statues on Easter Island enough head and body, according to the archaeological project done here.

According to an email that is spreading on the internet in recent weeks, the mysterious statues on Easter Island actually have the body, not the bare head with the big head as people think. The content of the letter also made it clear that archaeologists now unearth the body parts of the statues, which were buried after more than 500 years of erosion.

Those who are interested in the mysterious phenomenon on the Pacific island unconsciously fall into a half-believe. Whether the information is real or not, and if a head has an average height of 4 meters, weighs 14 tons, how big is the body?

Mysterious stone statues on Easter Island

It turns out that the number of people seeking answers is not small and they rush to the main excavation project website mentioned in the letter.'We saw more than 3 million visits and the homepage has collapsed,' said Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Project Director of Easter Island. Her team has dug up two buried bodies since 2010.

Photographs of the excavation process were uploaded to the website http://www.eisp.org/ 4 months ago, with older images recording the intact and intact heads and statues ever found in in 1950. 'The reason why people think that the statues on Easter Island only have the head because about 150 statues were buried to the shoulders or neck in the ash layer from the volcano', said Van Tilburg expert. lifesaving of the University of California in Los Angeles. This is also the most famous, most beautiful and most photographed area in the mysterious island. A total of nearly 1,000 statues on Easter Island.

In fact, archaeologists have studied statues on this island for about a century, and of course they know the existence of impressive bodies since the first archeology was carried out in 1914. The statues, called 'moai' by the natives, were carved from volcanic rocks around 1100 to 1500 according to ancient Polynesians. They are arranged in size, with the highest statue up to 10m.

Although their existence is still a mystery, the 'moai' are said to be representatives of the native Aboriginal ancestors. The ancient people may have carved new statues every time a tribal leader died, according to Van Tilburg's speculation. The new project aims to record the carvings on the body, while allowing experts to find ways to preserve these massive rocks.