January
21
/ 2025
An independent scholar who loves challenging the archaeological establishment has done it again, offering a new and provocative theory about who built the huge, enigmatic human-like monuments that cover the landscape on Easter Island, a lonely island outpost off the western coast of South America. Graham Hancock is a British author and adventurer who has published several best-selling books presenting the evidence that sophisticated cultures existed on Earth long before mainstream academia acknowledges. His work is both popular and controversial, and he has stirred up another hornet’s nest with his assertion that the monuments of Easter Island were constructed 12,000 years ago by an advanced but now lost culture, and not 900 years ago by Polynesians as most archaeologists believe
