Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 800 large stone statues exist there. The Easter Island statues , stand, on the average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. Few specifics are known about the history or meaning of the unusual statues , but many believe that they were created about 500 years ago in the images of local leaders of a lost civilization. Pictured above , some of the stone giants were illuminated in 2009 under the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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