Name: Ancient Aliens: How Old Are the Maoi Statues? (Season 13) | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-21T16:01:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 20 s
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NARRATOR: Isolated in the vast expanse of the South Pacific,

Since its discovery by Europeans in the 18th century,

very little is still known about the people who once

But of all the mysteries involving the island, otherwise

involve the nearly 900 megalithic statues

known as moai and why they were put here in the first place.

The moai are considered to be no more than perhaps

However, it has been established that some of them

penetrate down into the ground by a great amount

of feet to reveal the rest of the body, not

that they are infinitely older than a thousand years

and could go back many, many, many millennia.

look at the sites there, the statues, the megalithic walls,

you realize they're much older than what,

NARRATOR: Further clouding the issue is a discovery

With the help of photography and 3D modeling programs,

archaeologists discovered that the 13-ton stone hats known

made by what appear to be different groups of people.

The hats that are on top of the Easter Island moai

and carvings have been found on them, which

has, like, questioned, you know, the idea

Perhaps there is something else going on here.

It could well be that a number of different cultures

One of the most fascinating monuments on Easter Island

is the stone platform, or ahu, known as Vinapu,

and this is a huge megalithic construction

that is essentially a wall made of cyclopean megalithic blocks

When you look at this, you cannot help but think of Cusco

in Peru, and there has to be a relationship

All of these are part of a much bigger transmission

common belief was an origin amongst the stars.