#moai heads

[swemtpotamtam]

🗿🗿🗿 a lil family reunion happened during the time Nico and Niners visited Easter Island on vacation

bonus sketch with some more family resemblance ashjdsa

[tredawakandan]

Short vid showing old posts on Artifacts from the Americas & comparing them to the Moai Heads.This in itself proves the ancient connection between The Americas & Pacific Islanders. Click my Pacific Islanders tag down below to see more post like this

[portable-wing-wang]

I wanna talk about the British Museum

As a British citizen, I love the British Museum. I have wonderful memories of when i was child walking around and learning about peoples throughout history. It was fascinating and it's a fascination I hold to this day.

It's one of the most well-known museums around the world. A testament to British exploration and empirical history. It's a landmark for what Britain used to be.

Inside are housed some of the most priceless artifacts known to all of human culture. However, the "savages" from whom we took these pieces aren't dumb to the fact their property was stolen and they want it back.

And rightly so!

And it's not even "uncivilised" countries that want their artefacts back. Greece, Italy, Turkey all want their property returned. And that's it, returned, they don't want money or power, they just want their stuff back.

A prime example is the Rapa Nui people who have been in the news recently demanding their Moai statue to be returned. They don't want anything else, just their Brother back.

There's an argument going round that the Rapa Nui people, who carved the statues over 300 years ago, aren't capable of looking after the mighty heads. Now, this is just a flat out lie.

They're made of hard basalt stone, one of the hardest rocks around. They don't need any protection because they are effectively unbreakable and it'll take another 300 years to start to see any real damage.

If the argument was about keeping certain Islamic artefacts away from harm is slightly valid since ISIS in Syria have been destroying priceless pieces of art, ancient buildings and melting down any golden jewellery. Effectively destroying the history of the land to make a new future for themselves (classic fascist tactics).

However, the Rapa Nui are peaceful.

I'm making this post to urge people to stop spreading misinformation about the topic.

Yes, certain artefacts can't be returned because of the uncertainty regarding their safety but that's not the case here.

And this goes the same for much of the other artefacts being displayed at the British Museum. We don't need them anymore, we have the internet for education. It's time, to let go of the past and move forward.

The British Empire is dead and so should colonialism.

[historybizarre]

Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens

Where, exactly, the idea of ancient aliens building the pyramids began — and why some academics think racism lies at the heart of many extraterrestrial theories.

Capitalizing on the fervor surrounding Wells’s The War of the Worlds, astronomer and science fiction writer Garrett P. Serviss penned a quasi-sequel titled Edison’s Conquest of Mars in 1898. Serviss posited that “giants of Mars” had moved large blocks and built the Great Pyramid. He even noted that the Sphinx had Martian features. Edison’s Conquest was part of a number of science fiction works published as books or serialized in newspapers in the late 19th century which imagined alien invasions fought off by great inventors of the time. Thomas Edison was a favored hero in these science fiction fantasies much later collectively called Edisonades.

The popularization of the theory of alien architects as having a basis in science rather than consisting of only fictional musing can be attributed to Swiss author Erich von Däniken’s 1968 publication of the book Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past. Originally published in German and subsequently translated into English, it was one of the first popularly sold books to suggest that extraterrestrial life forms, not humans, built structures associated with our ancient civilizations. In 1966, Carl Sagan and Iosif S. Shklovskii had already speculated that contact with extraterrestrials might have occurred in their book Intelligent Life in the Universe, but von Däniken took this theory to new levels.

[tredawakandan]

Can't remember if I uploaded the first one.. #OurHairisenergy can be found on Instagram

[vectorsofpositivity]

Easter Island Moai! More than 75% of the time I worked on this was spent making the sky and clouds. I did this last November.

Pointillism or nah?

[jetraymond]

Rapa Nui didn't work out like south florida had hoped but it's already full of sea life!

[thedigitaldoodler]

Easter Island guy