Excavations of the bodies have been going on for many years, you can find out more from the Easter Island Statue Project. It’s generally accepted that the statues were made sometime between 1250 and 1500 AD. There is controversy surrounding why the bodies are buried. Was it time and erosion, or were they buried on purpose? Aliens? The soil surrounding the bodies for so long has preserved interesting carvings (petroglyphs, or rock markings)..
This one below has a sailing ship carved onto it…
I always wondered if they had bodies under them, and I was right! :)
wonderful
how old are the photos
they seem be a wariors keeping a treasure or am important information inside the camera they are caring. i beg the people who discoverded it, does not hide this to the mankind
and what about the petro messages the biulders left for us.
These statues have to weigh several hundred tons! The real question is how were these statues moved to their current location? Who on this earth would have the power to do this in those ancient times?
It wasn’t that ancient. It is believed they were made between 1250-1500 AD. While that seems like a long time ago don’t forget Columbus sailed in 1492. We are not talking the stone age here…
I’m honestly surprised no one thought of this sooner. I would think it would be obvious to see if there was anything else under there. On a side note they were probably statues carved to immortalize warriors and chieftains of the civilization. They just have a unique art style is all.
I personally think the statues covered their own lower bodies up once they realized the sculptors dress them all in thongs and gave them bad cases of ring worm on their backs. Please inspect the pics and you will see for yourself.
great… but thinking.. if it was a land slide that covered them wouldnt that much dirt or mud coming down a hill to cover them that high be strong enough to have knoched them over… the bases on them doesnt look very big to stop that from happening.Also that much rain soaked dirt would have also rain soaked the area they are standing at and made it easier for a slide to topple them over..
visitors from other planets really had fun building things all over earth to confuse the futre people here… is time travel a couple thousand years from no so we can come back do things and return just to confuse our ancient ancestors…lol
Maybe a land slide covered them up.
Interesting find. The first inscription they could translate said “JUST WAITING FOR GUM-GUM YOU DUMB-DUMB!”
Could the great flood years ago brought in all the soil around them?
Here’s my thought- It’s an island- majority of islands are created by some sort of volcanic or tectonic activity (I’m going to guess volcano on this one, thousands of years dormant) The sheer coverage of those statues either states that THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of years ago (the one picture with 4 average height men —lets say for argument’s sake they’re approx. 5’6″ feet each= with 5 people’s length uncovered -not even the whole statue has been dug up yet- that’s about 330 inches of dirt uncovered, one inch of dirt approximates 100-500 years to make.) that’s 33,000 years old! Which makes me think a Volcano erupted and covered the majority of those statues. or a third option: they dug up a hole, created their monolith, put it in the hole and buried it, perhaps as tribute to a tribal leader who passed away.
These don’t look like they were buried. Look at the sedimentary layers on the digs.