A Thorough Exploration Of Easter Island: Who Was There Before The Polynesians?

[@rhonin11]

It is amazing how different things look in Brien’s videos when compared to documentaries you see. Brien’s are so much more informative.

[@Sobeewan]

@AVLRECORDS There was no fraud, FauxPrez. told everyone what kind of organization they had assembled, and thereby what they planned on doing with it. No deception, no fraud. Done right out in the open.

[@Throku]

@AVLRECORDS Same people who don't want you to look at the evidence, or use arguments but instead resort to call to authority.

[@anyatranter3984]

I felt like I was there with them

[@SpaceRanger187]

@@Sobeewan right.

[@democraticman3602]

He keeps repeating himself, completely spoils it.

[@Flame-Bright-Cheer]

Professor Brien .....gotta let you know how much I love you for all of the knowledge you brought to me... ....💯🙏 freaking unmatched🙏💯

[@MicShay]

You always show us something mainstream has not. I've watched many videos on easter isle and just now learned there was a lake. Even though I knew of quarry, I just never was shown lake. Thanks Brien. Keep em coming.

[@astralseeker]

We are living in the "time of revelations". This channel is one major contributor in the waking-up of thousands of souls. Crystal clear videos, educated comments, logical questionning, no rigid dogmatic propaganda, light years away from mainstream lies, Brian Foerster is a blessing for the human kind. If my finances were more brilliant I would enjoy a tour of egypt or peru with this man.

[@krejslayer]

This time of revelations will only come to fruition once we demolish the power of the dogmatic institution that is modern academia.

[@caseylevins7216]

@@krejslayer oh, really?

[@avo616]

lol

[@JohnBusakowski]

The most thorough video of east island i've seen. Thanks

[@markeaton2003]

Well Brien, no one can tell you, that you don't get around much. Thank you Brien, I have learned so much from you, and this channel.

[@jimschultz6075]

Thank you this is the best doc I have seen on this island in my life

[@DixonWangYF]

Very clear video. Wonderful footage! Feels like as if I was there. Thank you for sharing!

[@heamorhoid]

Same feeling. And those walls hits me harder than egyptians´ one. Strange feeling.

[@steve-o6413]

Looks absolutely gorgeous thanks for the Tour....

[@theathenainstitute8246]

this content is so valuable man. Thanks for putting this all up for free

[@ckotty]

Magnificent tour. Many thanks once again. 👍🏽😘

[@davidjennings5865]

Besides the 950 known figures, there may be more completely buried that are yet undiscovered.

[@Nineteen1900Hundred]

There’s even some huge ones underwater

[@ty_-je8wf]

Just a few years ago they were saying somewhere around 840

[@JonnoPlays]

It's interesting that in this area we also see evidence of the large slabs appearing to have been thrown. In Egypt sites it can be explained that conquerors destroyed things and used the sites as quarries so things have been moved, but you can't easily use those explanations out here in the middle of nowhere.

[@scottjeffries1127]

It’s like someone went out of their way to do the hardest thing possible. It’s like throwing a car!

[@Illyrian_Adventures]

wow just wow. Thank you for the video tour.

[@gumloon]

Thanks for sharing this.Once again, Brien Foerster outdoes the History Channel!

[@iaincollins5743]

Thanks for posting, Brien. I thought at the time the definition might suffer a little due the unreliable natural light, but in retrospect it kinda adds to the slightly eerie atmosphere of the Island. At least that was my feeling. I was there with David Attenborough in the Nineties, and I guess by now you might have seen the program that came out of that trip. The orthodox view on the stonework styles is much more non-committal as far as I'm aware, but I agree with your assessment. The earliest moai seem to be of such a different style, and their very endurance points to a greater order of quality and culture. The story of Easter Island still has so much to teach us 'modern' folks.

[@brienfoerster]

Thanks Iain

[@elainebines6803]

I witnessed what turned out to be the rendlesham ufo. When I saw it, it was in the night sky, early hours after boxing day. I realised then it was true never thinking they had actually gone on a mission, or I would have a platform like this and more importantly I wasn't the only one that had seen it. ! Suffice to say I think Pyramids stonehenge and statues all come from aliens. They care about our planet as that was the mission apparently, to disable nuclear weapons so we have nothing to be afraid of.

[@markwatts2532]

@@elainebines6803 The Rendlesham event of 1980 IS the most compelling and undeniable alien/ufo phenomenon in history.

[@navgo621]

Thank you for sharing this with us, so valuable information

[@keithcarter9396]

Fantastic presentation, very informative. Thanks for your work.

[@jamesodonnell4771]

Great video layouts. Good flow of information and quality accompanying visuals and relevant anecdotal tangents.

[@luisholkon1823]

THANK YOU, Mr. FOERSTER.

[@sorthemightyhunter4115]

AWESOME VIDEO! Thanks for sharing all of that!!!

[@Snowblindinfinity]

Check out the lichen. A very very slow growing organism. It could be proof of the age of the stones or at least the time the lichen started growing on the rock. Just put a rule against the stone and we can determine the size to determine the growth rate and age of the lichen. Lichenometry. Brien you are my favorite Archeologer / KZbin Channel. Always so interesting and fascinating.

[@darrynjohnson5808]

The estimated lichen growth rate would make a good data point to correlate with how-long it would take for the many moai to be buried by natural processes.

[@ProfessorToadstool]

all these years and this is the FIRST time anyone has ever shown me this...

[@patricialessard8651]

Thank you so much for showing so much more of the island than anyone else has done. I knew that there had to be more to it than other people have shown but it seems no one has. There seems to be more sites to be excavated to fully understand who and when and the purpose of being there. In any case, I learned so much from this about Easter Island that I never knew. Thanks again and stay safe.

[@marknewton6984]

Treeless and ugly

[@AmazingPhilippines1]

I appreciate the good camera work, Brien. Very interesting tour.

[@paladinto77]

how on earth have they not dug deeper near that vinakoo wall? clearly you could excavate down what appears to be probably 30 feet or more

[@susannebrunberg4174]

@pali dinto They're not allowed to do that. Polynesians don't simply want others to explore the island

[@deejames6371]

S$$hhhhhhhh!🤫.........lol(Well, not really "Out Loud!")

[@deejames6371]

@@susannebrunberg4174 "The Polynesians or $ome-other$?"

[@susannebrunberg4174]

@@deejames6371 Polynesians forbid everything in Easter Island. They want so badly that they have something to do with the history of the island. But they haven't. Loud and clear. Lol

[@jrh5067]

Successful without breaking the egg is more historically accurate than being eaten by sharks. The art work there provides us with this fact.

[@ionianosescu8510]

Excellent video mr.Brien.Suprarealisthyc statues, lost rituals, civilizations, technologys, more questions.🤔Thanks for all. I like Easter Island, Easter bunny and Easter .

[@stevemcfarlane2582]

Well done - very enjoyable to see so much of Easter Island. Very rare to see this kind of detail anywhere.. except here of course, thanks !

[@davidk4869]

Another excellent video Brien. Thank you! It is highly likely that he original (or perhaps second) settlers came from Peru. You may mention it later but they had the sweet potato which is indigenous to Peru. There was a record keeping ancient civilization in Peru and about 55 bc, at the end of yet another massive civil war, many immigrated North to Central America ( the beginnings of the Mayan civilization) and some went east. They left from the Bay of Guayaquil and the prevailing currents likely would have taken them to Easter island. Here is the brief account from their record: (note that the group that was not heard from again mentioned in verse 8 would have sailed east. Others who sailed north were said to sail north; they were sailing from the west coast so sailing west was not an option. From the record we know their enemy was in the south pushing them north, so they would not have sailed south. That leaves only sailing east. ). “5 And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an exceedingly curious man, therefore he went forth and built him an exceedingly large ship, on the borders of the land Bountiful, by the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by the narrow neck which led into the land northward. 6 And behold, there were many of the Nephites who did enter therein and did sail forth with much provisions, and also many women and children; and they took their course northward. And thus ended the thirty and seventh year. 7 And in the thirty and eighth year, this man built other ships. And the first ship did also return, and many more people did enter into it; and they also took much provisions, and set out again to the land northward. 8 And it came to pass that they were never heard of more. And we suppose that they were drowned in the depths of the sea. And it came to pass that one other ship also did sail forth; and whither she did go we know not. 9 And it came to pass that in this year there were many people who went forth into the land northward. And thus ended the thirty and eighth year. 10 And it came to pass in the thirty and ninth year of the reign of the judges, Shiblon died also, and Corianton had gone forth to the land northward in a ship, to carry forth provisions unto the people who had gone forth into that land.”

[@atbhill]

Simply amazing!

[@sandrajones1609]

Another Stellar Presentation of Phenomenal Content! Magnifico! Bravo!

[@markcarter9474]

The ship carving looks like it would be done at the same time to me hard to tell though thanks again and now we're approaching

[@mcganahanskjellyfetti7722]

Fascinating

[@paulkleiss7606]

looks like a big job keeping things looking green and well maintained. Probably the most secure employment on the island.

[@OCRay1]

I’m surprised anyone found that island. It is absolutely in the middle of endless ocean. Amazing place that I believe has much more to show that is hidden by earth.

[@MatthewLaCroix]

Fantastic Brien. Great analysis of Rapanui.

[@foolishwatcher]

Excellent video, Brien! I have never been able to travel to Easter Island, so this is a welcome "walkthrough". Regarding the "top knots": Many years ago, I found a very similar depiction of a long eared man with reddish "hair" from Peru, which is shown here on the cover of this book: Please search on amazon for "Incas-Lords-Gold-Glory-Civilizations", as I apparantly can't share the link here.

[@HighterTV]

Thank you so much !

[@johnporter5828]

Excellent ! Thank you...

[@jasonmiller2905]

Brien, thank you so much for another great video. So many of the Moai are buried up to their neck. I wonder if the monolithic walls are like that. Has anyone dug next to the walls to see how big they really are?

[@avlisk]

Unfinished megaliths seem to be commonplace in quarries all over the planet. It's as if something caused cultures everywhere to just suddenly stop construction, perhaps for the same reason? A concurrent reason?

[@seaglass8940]

Was thinking the same thing...

[@Rkd-_-b]

Maybe cataclysms destroyed many making them appear unfinished along with people dismantling them to use them for other projects.

[@gymgym9763]

Much gratitude Blessings

[@pixelspring]

Fantastic work here once again Brien! Cinematography is v nice too. some sweet frames with nice balance.

[@shengsun5916]

Overlooked the Birdman theme of the Chinese archeological site of Sanxindui. Nice reminder of a global civilization prior to some other "Great Reset". Taoist tie their hair with a knot on top.

[@kingkyronex9202]

Brien Foerster shares the truth. Its up to us to get people to listen.

[@MsMisty-zt3lq]

Are you sure he tells the whole truth? Sometimes he sure acts like he is embellishing.

[@squatch545]

The island is a lot bigger than I imagined. Thanks for the video.

[@rontom-l4h]

great job !! new stuff

[@wendysalter]

950 Moai? WOW! A Grand Tour, Brien, many thanks.

[@cesar6120]

Parabéns pelos sempre grandes trabalhos de pesquisa a campo, talvez jamais poderíamos nós cidadãos comuns conhecer lugares tão fantásticos que mostram o quanto não sabemos nada sobre a existência humana na Terra. Obrigado!

[@duskfall_777]

Beautiful place

[@johnnyfromstovner1286]

Question: Assuming that the statues were free-standing (why make a statue and immediately berry it up to it's neck, that's no reasonable explanation) when they were erected: How long would it take for them to be covered in earth by natural processes? It seems to me that it would take a really long time. Would it be possible to date a sample of the soil/material at the base of a statue if one were completely unearthed?

[@brienfoerster]

12,000 years according to geologist Robert Schoch

[@thecure4470]

@@brienfoerster mm the great flood strikes again🤔

[@CountBasie56]

@Brien Foerster Excellent presentation. I’m wondering whether it was the later civilisation that developed the stone waterways on the island, or did they simply expand on the remnants of the earlier civilisation...

[@TheDalaiLamaCon]

Thanks, that was really enjoyable. Have you ever considered a repeated and regular catastrophe cycle on Earth? Seems so many civilisations ended abruptly and without transference of custom or knowledge to the next one. Gobekli Tepe being an example that springs to mind.

[@brienfoerster]

Every 13,000 years

[@ari4681]

How do you know that ?

[@brienfoerster]

@@ari4681 Ask Robert Schoch

[@ari4681]

Robert as you are my heroes !

[@TheDalaiLamaCon]

@@brienfoerster More or less. Good man. Open minds open doors.

[@billy38010]

It's All really Quite Nonsensical, and, that's what's Fascinatingly Erie about this remote Island, thanks!

[@hanuman3527]

Amazing that they know there is 10-20 ft of dirt covering those stone statues, but nobody thinks that more evidence and maybe even buried statues (Mo-ai?) is under all that dirt? I think ground penetrating radar over that island would find more artifacts and remnants of an ancient catastrophe that buried much of the island 10,000+ yrs ago. Also, if sea levels rose 300+ ft in the past, there should be more Mo-ai in the water offshore, and I think divers have found this to be true.

[@AustinKoleCarlisle]

if there is 10-20 ft of dirt covering some of these statues, then these are 10s of thousands of years old.

[@jcie1210mk3]

Why didn't this "ancient catastrophe" destroy or at the very least damage the statues?

[@AustinKoleCarlisle]

@@jcie1210mk3 maybe the damaged ones are buried underground and the ones that escaped damage remained on the surface.

[@jcie1210mk3]

@@AustinKoleCarlisle How would they not get damaged though if something was catastrophic enough to bury others(or all them) and destroy the wall shown?

[@AustinKoleCarlisle]

@@jcie1210mk3 a wall of mud

[@johnburman966]

We just don't know - which is an anathema for the individual and collective mind. Consciousness has no plan, it does what is possible.......that's all. But I don't know.

[@weekendmom]

Brien, have you ever seen the documentaries of Skeletons In The Cupboard or Skeletons Under The Carpet? Although they are about the history of the peopling of New Zealand, there's quite a bit about Easter Island in them, some of it from the Maori. I highly recommend watching them. They are here on KZbin.

[@brienfoerster]

Many times

[@jfhow]

I wonder how they got those heavy red stone top knots up on top of the Moai statues.

[@leslieross3404]

At 26:30 on the back of the statue there appear to be nubs or the little nodes left on by all the other stone work throughout the world. Or am I seeing things?

[@alexegus71]

Brien I being Peruvian and very intrigued about the architects since I was told in school Incas built it haha. I appreciate you for being humble and posting the question or questions with no answers. Since there is NO proof of anything all over the megalithic world.

[@Davetv1121]

Great video!

[@anyatranter3984]

It always makes me curious why places that were defrosted like Dartmoor forest in uk and Easter Island have never been reforested.is it hard to do.Now it probably wouldnt be allowed as the whole island is a pickled historical monument I suppose.

[@Garage.Philosophy]

I think new data shows it was actually never forested

[@marknewton6984]

Treeless and barren.

[@blacksonne19]

Awesome video!

[@rwheellife]

Hello Brien, as I watched in wonder of this amazing video I heard you question how the first visitors could find this small island in the middle of nowhere? I thought about it and came up with a probable answer. As it is a Volcano it was still active and could be seen from far away as it spewed smoke into the sky. What do you think about that?

[@paulcosadinos1324]

No one ever talks about the statues satin the ground below sea level. I was diving there of the north east coast 11 years ago and saw at least six of them. We dived to nearly 40m and could see there were some even deeper although light was pretty poor at that depth. I thing these people were here during the ice age.

[@staleeriksen1451]

Do you know if there's images of those below sea level?

[@alanwann9318]

Has anyone done a scan or excavation?

[@t11f]

Great video

[@ghoulunathics]

have u ever thought about diving the coastal waters of easter island to look for more moai?

[@Unidentifying]

I guess they dont allow it?

[@ghoulunathics]

@@Unidentifying i've heard something like that as well, though i'm wondering how would they prevent people from actually diving there anyways. does the island have it's own cost guard patrolling there dragging off anyone who puts their head under the water or what. fuck those types of people.

[@AustinKoleCarlisle]

drones

[@susannebrunberg4174]

Yes, there has been diving done around the island. They found many moais under sealevel... Today it's surely prohibited to dive.

[@Fossilsunleashed]

at 17.04 looks like a structure on top of the hill where the rock was cut from

[@svale1610]

Before the Polynesians were the ancient people from India who made these exact constructions and the headstones design are from that same culture.

[@fatimasipen8191]

Exactly so

[@phillipjacobson4457]

Brian foerster you should go to the island north of Easter island where the think montazums was burried. I think it was montezuma any way. There was a documentary on it back in 2000

[@warrendargusch5873]

What sort of calander or seasonal reconi g did the inhabitants have? Re...king for one year!

[@adammason4554]

easter island is the last place humans could have migrated to, its in the middle of nowhere how could anyone get there before polynesians either aliens or this world is so much older and sufisticated than we r lied too about. easter island blows my mind, its amazing and to think we think these people built this than were stupid enough to destroy the trees and habbitat to condem them to oblivian. so many questions so few answers thank u brien i love all ur work u r amazing id love to afford a trip on any of your expoditions, you tube will have to suffice for now

[@adammason4554]

oh my spelling is horrid i know thanks nannas

[@adammason4554]

oh my spelling is horrid i know thanks nannas

[@ALLGODSDIE]

I would say thebpeople that built all the ancient megalithic structures in Peru and Egypt more than likely probably the same ones that were there on the islands before the Polynesians

[@lynnbb]

THANK YOU

[@fliptop62deceived95]

Looking at the landscape , is it possible that there was a mud slide that buried the statues?

[@olbillthecook5527]

I heard the backs of the moai are carved in relief. How many of the large moai have actually been excavated? And I noticed, it looked like the larger moai we're deeper in the ground?

[@susannebrunberg4174]

I have been lucky to visit the island twice. A long ago, without fences, guardians etc. Then you could rent a horse and go where you wanted. Check the moais quite near, the plateaus and walk where ever... Second time they were building the fences everywhere, and immidiatly were shouting if you stepped off the path... Nevertheless, the island is worth visiting. Never mind the rude welcome they practise nowadays.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

Has any geological analysis been done to identify and date the sediment around the buried Moai? ( Maui?) And has any tomographic survey been done at most ancient stones (eg platform and wall) to check for underground structures?

[@aviathor]

What kind of tools did the ancient rapa nui s have? Were there metal tools? Copper tools? Are there archeological evidence of them? So interesting

[@brienfoerster]

rocks

[@aviathor]

@@brienfoerster 😳🤔

[@Ryanboy2020]

Brien, what kind of accommodations are on the island for the tour participants to stay in?

[@brienfoerster]

Nice hotels

[@susannebrunberg4174]

All kind of hotels, motels... Be sure to choose the right one!

[@Ryanboy2020]

@@susannebrunberg4174 Gee that's helpful??

[@poppopartist3870]

Remnants of Lemuria

[@ThelmaThais1]

Lemuria was a continent and easter island with the rest of polynesia too included hawaii. Mu Land 🙂

[@richjordan6461]

I've always wondered...how or why are they half-buried?

[@staleeriksen1451]

Way more than half burried I would say!

[@MrHunterseeker]

This other youtuber posted a video of an ancient stone building I have never heard of in Armenia that has all the tell tale signs of being ancient megalithic, with all the polygonal cuts, no mortar, precision, and large blocks, It makes me believe it was found by later cultures and repurposed, like all other sites. Not sure if you have heard of this place, linking the video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2akiJyHoNt3rKs Edit: Notice in the video I linked, the complete ancient building, it has the "nubs" too that we see on all the ancient walls of all the ancient sites. In this case, inside the rooms, and it appears the "nubs" were used to be a base for the arches. During the ice age, the ocean level would have been 400 feet lower than it is today. So I bet if one was to scuba dive in between Easter Island and South America, along the highest "mountains" on the sea floor, more ruins and artifacts would be found of this lost ancient civilization. There would have been a bunch more islands, closer together, that you can probably see even on google maps/earth.

[@shengsun5916]

Please check out Atlatis Andes by a British cartographer decades ago, he seems fell off the map as many brilliant researchers at that time did.

[@susannebrunberg4174]

There are for example, many moais under sealevel around the island...

[@kennethhacker3014]

Is it possible that the smaller statues are mudfossils? Did they find any mudfossils? Always a great presentation

[@Fossilsunleashed]

how hard would it be for say a dozen 30 ft tall giants to move 950 30 ft tall stones ?

[@b.h.1007]

Royal ppl wore the red fez! which is the oldest head dress known to this day..

[@mollylemonk]

Holy Shit Brian, what if they were using sails to move these rocks???

[@Scratcher25]

Check out 'The Ra Material', aka the Law of One books. Ra says the heads on Easter Island were created by thought by the Orions 40,000 years ago.

[@jonjoyce9641]

Excellent video Brien. I find it hilarious that there is such a popular theory that they waddled the heads back and forth with rope to transport them. But I guess it made sense to me before I discovered your channel...

[@apu6216]

Well the Rapanui elders said thats how they were moved. That they "walked" to their final destination...so, why is it hilarious? Their moai were personifications of their ancestors, of course if they "waddled" the stone statues with ropes they would describe them as "walking" to their ahu.

[@outcastoffoolgara]

Has the cave you mentioned in an earlier visit been excavated yet? Has there been any reports of archaeological recording of the cave contents etc.

[@ohmnamashivaya3566]

12:24 The moai in the center of the screen was what I wanted to see the most at ranu raraku. It is the only one with its head deliberately carved to depict it as observing the sky. Luckily, I got to visit before the fences were erected and stand directly beneath him. 16:46 I got to walk among those moai in 2001, The ones on the inside of the crater seem to be of the most recent period. They are very square and thin in appearance, like the mostly buried moai at Ahu Vinapu . There is a great view of Ahu Tongariki from the top of the crater. There can be seen two deep cut bore holes which I have since leaned were used as hitching pots to get the moai out of the cater and back to the ground Thanks for the great video!

[@ava5552091]

Hey Brien , since you spend so much time in Peru , research this ….. I read one of the Inca rulers had a settlement there ( ancient ruins )

[@mollylemonk]

The statues remind me of Nguzunguzu from Solomon Islands...

[@solardisk3]

That much infill of the larger ones at 13:32 looks very out-of-place. Where did all that material come from? Are there tiny shells mixed in the soils? Either that was the result of a tsunami or those things are EXTREMELY old.

[@denis77777777]

At 39:32 could this be part of the system to move the statues??? Looks like it has some rope notches cut out on each end and the whole thing is roundes a bit. Looks like a tool to me.🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@insider_english1594]

According to one source, each Moai represented a volcano around the Pacific Ring of Fire, and 'hats' were placed on those that represented the active volcanoes. Anyone have more details on that?

[@kananaskiscountry8191]

u had said this is ur second part, may i get the link to the first one plz. i find easter island knowledgeable