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On April 5 1722, Easter Sunday, Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen found an
island in the Pacific hithero unknown to the europeans. Here, 2400 miles
from South America and 1260 miles from the nearest populated island, a
unic culture fluorished in isolation. During his brief visit, Roggeveen
found hundreds of colossal stone statues, weighing many tons and standing
atop impressive stone platforms. These statues, or Moai, would come to
serve as a symbol of the remote outpost that Roggeveen named Easter Island,
or Rapi Nui as its called today. What had built them? How was it
erected with technology of the past? These are some of the mysteries surrounding
Easter island. You an read out version if the story and analysis in this
section of Myths & Mysteries of the World |
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