Do you know what is hidden under the heads on Easter Island?

We somehow got used to see photos from a mysterious Easter Island heads sticking out of the ground. Therefore, it is strange to know that things are not so simple.

Website has collected a few pictures from the excavations, which were found at the head of the trunk, decorated with petroglyphs.

The scientists studied 150 stone heads located near Rano Raraku.

In recent years it has been dug a few heads, who found seven meters under the trunk.

According to archaeologists, the statues were originally buried. They plunged into the ground under the influence of climate change.

The fact that the head of the body are, first wrote the famous traveler and explorer Thor Heyerdahl. Perhaps he learned about it from the natives.

During the excavations were found and mechanisms that allow you to set the colossi.

Photo source: imgur

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