?Do moai statues have bodies
Who among us has not been dazzled by the pictures of the Moai, the most famous landmark in the world that shows huge heads on the island of Resurrection of Chile? These mysterious heads that guard the island and the ocean near it were a mysterious mystery that baffled archaeologists, which made it a fertile site for excavations.
Are these heads bodies hidden under the ground?
This was revealed by an e-mail that was sent and viewed in May 2012, which included pictures of the results of excavations carried out by scientists affiliated with the excavation project on the island, which showed bodies buried more than 500 years ago due to soil erosion and erosion factors.
We were surprised by the number of visitors who visited our website to view the images of the statues, as their number exceeded 3 million, which led to the suspension of the site.
This was stated by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the excavation project, who holds the position of a fellow at the Costen Center for Archeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and who in 2010 excavated two buried statues, studied them, and then collected a series of pictures of these recent discoveries and other pictures of statues that were discovered in the 1950s and sent them. In an e-mail, which led to a renewed interest in this archaeological project and unleashed the question again about the truth of these antiquities and an attempt to decipher the mystery surrounding them.
What makes people think that they are only heads is the presence of about 150 statues at the bottom of the volcano, and only the head appears. It is among the most famous, most beautiful, and most photographed by visitors compared to the rest of the other statues on the island.
Van Tilburg adds
… This is what makes those who did not see the pictures of the statues whose bodies were discovered believe that they are only heads stacked above the ground.
Archaeologists have been studying these statues for a century, and they have realized since 1914 that they have upper trunks bearing these visible heads, and that they were carved by the ancient inhabitants of the island using volcanic tuff, a type of rock formed by the deposition of volcanic ash on the ground, forming cohesive stones.
The length of the Moai statues ranges between 2.5 and 10 meters, and their average weight is 14 tons. They all look towards the center of the island, except for AHU AKIVI, whose statues look towards the sea. The significance of its existence remains vague, and we only know that it represents the ancestors of the indigenous people, as it was their custom to carve a new statue whenever a number of tribal figures died, and for this the new excavations intend to document the complex inscriptions found on the statues, which the burial helped them to remain protected from the elements. weather.
Engravings on moai statues. Images exclusive to EISP.ORG
The project will also help protect and reinforce the ancient rock columns. Van Tilburg confirmed the presence of a team accompanying the excavations and protecting and reinforcing the stones using chemicals and waterproofing materials.
Source: livescience