Who Built the Easter Island Heads
And who built the Easter Islands?The Chengdu Univeristy is building its own Easter Island heads on their campuses.
Have you always wanted to see the world-famous Moai sculptures of Easter Island, but don't have the luxury of flying all the way there? One Chengdu Univeristy has built its own Easter Island heads directly on their campuses. Pictures of the sculptures of Shanghai came to the China web this morning and were taken with a lot of silliness.
"An archaeological staff will come to the following conclusions in a thousand years: Chengdu is where civilisation began," writes a newsman. From Shijiazhuang's Great Sphinx to Suzhou's London Tower Bridge, China has a fame for imitating great wonder of the inscrutable. Recently, however, a tourism town got into lawsuit after the true terracotta army got a whiff of the hundred counterfeit soldiers they had built in the countryside of Anhui County.
The heads of the Easter Islands are concealing something.
It has 250 decks with mai sculptures about half a millimetre apart to form an almost continuous line around the island's circumference. Paro, the highest mai built, was almost 10 meters high and weigh 90.4 tonnes. On completion, the highest mai would have been about 21 meters (69 feet) high, weighing about 270 t!
Easter Island heads also have corpses.
Easter Island's permanent picture of the enigmatic heads in general view is just that - heads. It' s quite a shocking sight to see the heads from a different perspective - and to see that they have full body, which extend over many, many meters into the bottom of the island.
Easter Island Statue Project has meticulously excavated two of the more than 1,000 sculptures on the island - and has done its best to unlock the mysteries of the mystical rocks and the men who built them. Mud and debris that partly buried the sculptures washed down from above and was not intentionally placed there to buried, defend or prop up the work.
Sculptures were placed on paving slabs. Pinholes were carved into the ground to prop the trunk uprightly. Cable ducts were slit into the ground around the pillar openings. Poles, cables, stones and various kinds of stoneware were used to sculpt and erect the sculptures.
One of the most secluded islands in the South Pacific, the island was once home to a Polish people whose story is still a mystery.