Do you know what is hidden under the heads on Easter Island?
We are somehow used to seeing photos from Easter Island with mysterious heads sticking out of the ground. But it turns out that everything is not so simple. We present to your attention several photographs from the excavations, where bodies decorated with petroglyphs were found at the heads.
Scientists have examined about 150 stone heads located in the Rano Raraku area.
In recent years, several heads have been excavated, under which seven-meter bodies were discovered.
According to archaeologists, the statues were not originally buried. They sank underground under the influence of climate change.
During the excavations, mechanisms were found that made it possible to install colossi
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