The Mystery of Easter Island — Scriptorium Liberum

The Ancient Mystery of Easter Island

✍ John A. Torres 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Mitchell Lane 🌐 English

To some, Easter Island is just a tiny bit of volcanic rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. To others, it is the source of one of mankind's greatest mysteries. Easter Island is home to hundreds of giant statues that people built centuries ago, but no one knows why. The statues are amazing. Som

Aku Aku: The Mystery of Easter Island

📁 Aku Aku: The Mystery of Easter Island

✍ Thor Heyerdahl 📂 Library 🌐 English

Thor Heyerdahl's book based on his researches in Easter Island

Easter Island Land of Mystery

📁 Easter Island Land of Mystery

✍ David Pratt 📂 Library 🌐 English

The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the

📁 The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

✍ Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Free Press 🌐 English

The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient

Easter Island (Lost Worlds and Mysteriou

📁 Easter Island (Lost Worlds and Mysterious Civilizations)

✍ Ronald A. Reis 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Facts on File 🌐 English

Easter Island is a true land of mystery. One of the most remotely inhabited places on Earth, this 64-square-mile speck in the South Pacific is more than 1,000 miles from anywhere else, yet Polynesian voyagers managed to settle Easter Island a thousand years ago. No one knows why the Moai, nearly a t

Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastr

📁 Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island

✍ Giulio Magli 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Giulio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our plan