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History of Science of Easter Island. Easter Island's long isolation was ended on Easter Sunday, 1722, when a Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, discovered the island. He named it for the Holy day. The Dutch were amazed by the great statues, which they thought were made from clay.
Georgia Lee, an archaeologist who spent six years documenting the island’s petroglyphs, finds them as remarkable as the moai. “There’s nothing like it in Polynesia,” she says of this rock ...
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Aug 13, 2021 · Aug 13, 2021 | 41m 35s | tv-pg | CC. Ancient Aliens is counting down the world’s top ten most mysterious sites, from the towering Moai statues of Easter Island to the enormous megalithic blocks ...
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Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has swirled around the iconic ancient statues and the history of the people who created them. Now, a new ...
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Jan 13, 2010 · Discovery of the Island by Jacob Roggeveen. In 1722 Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutch explorer, stumbled upon the world’s most isolated inhabited island of the Pacific Ocean. He decided to call it Easter Island, after the day he discovered it. Roggeveen described the islanders as having a variety of skin colors, but not black.
