ancient mystery of Easter Island

Easter Island Statues

The famous Easter Island statues ancient mystery surrounding it has been solved by archaeologists. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world’s most remote places inhabited by people. Up to 1,000 years ago, the islanders started putting giant red hats on the statues.

University of Manchester and University College London researcher team thinks that the hats were rolled down from an ancient volcano. Dr Colin Richards and Dr Sue Hamilton are the first British archaeologists to work on the island since 1914. They pieced together a series of clues to discover how the statues got their red hats. An axe, a road, and an ancient volcano led to their findings. While Dr Richards said that they know the hats were rolled along the road made from a cement of compressed red scoria dust. Each hat, weighing several tonnes, was carved from volcanic rock. They were placed on the heads of the famous statues all around the coast of the island. But, the precise on how and why the hats were attached is unknown.

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