TIL: The Famous Easter Island Head Statues Actually Have Bodies!

[tblue37]

[tblue37]

1. The missing link:

https://themindcircle.com/head-statues-have-bodies/

[captain queeg]

2. That's amazing. And it too so long to realize it!

[MN2theMax]

3. WOW

That is amazing!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Wow. Now I'll have to.go back.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. would be neat to take capt z-r0s time machine back and see how they were made . thanks

[2naSalit]

6. WOW!!

[brush]

7. Holy crap. They're giants. Who carved/erected these gargantuan statues?

Last edited Sun Dec 31, 2023, 02:25 AM - Edit history (2)

Must've been the same giant aliens who built the pyramids in Egypt and Mexico.

Aliens or not I sure wish they'd left some text or something to let us know who they were and where did they come from and where did they go.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. tblue37, where did you get these photos? Any link to more info?

[IbogaProject]

9. Bing has a reverse image search

If these are on the web it will know from where.

[tblue37]

17. I put a link in the first reply. DU4 won't let me edit an OP, so if I make a mistake, I can't correct it.

I mistakenly left the link out of the OP, so I had to put it in a reply.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Thanks. You should be able to edit an OP, green edit button on lower right. I just

did a test post in DU lounge to check it out.

[tblue37]

20. DU4 doesn't allow it on my Kindle. There is no edit button for an OP, though I can

edit replies. This is a well-known DU4 problem for Kindles.

[keithbvadu2]

10. The whole picture

Link to tweet

[WestMichRad]

12. Now that's funny!

Love it!!

[Sogo]

11. The first photo looks fake to me.

The others, showing excavation, look real.

[tblue37]

16. I think you may be right.

[KewlKat]

13. Here's a short video from NBC

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/mysterious-easter-island-heads-have-bodies-too-43597891707

[SleeplessinSoCal]

14. 2012?

I'm now wondering why this has risen now. The link to NBC is dated June 2012

[KewlKat]

19. Yes, the Easter Island Statues Have Bodies -- But That's Old News (2022)

Every so often, an old story resurfaces and goes viral via a new crop of Internet rovers. Such is the case with the “news” about the bodies of the Easter Island statues.

As early as 1914, archaeologists on Easter Island discovered that the heads of at least some of the megalithic statues, traditionally called moai, were attached to subterranean torsos, covered up over many centuries by erosion.

But that information remained largely hidden from the public until 2012 when a chain email containing images of full-bodied Easter Island statues taken from excavations in the 1950s and 2010s began circulating.

“The reason people think they are [only] heads is there are about 150 statues buried up to the shoulders on the slope of a volcano, and these are the most famous, most beautiful, and most photographed of all the Easter Island statues,” director of the Easter Island Statue Project, Jo Anne Van Tilburg, told Live Science. “This suggested to people who had not seen photos of [other unearthed statues on the island] that they are heads only.”

not much more at this link

[nocoincidences]

15. breathtaking!

How old are these statues???????

Archeologists have a lot of catching up to do.