Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...
Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...
Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by “remarkably few” of the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people, solving a ...
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Myth to motion: How Easter Islanders moved their towering stone giants upright
The ancient people of Rapa Nui likely used ropes to rock the giant statues in an upright, zig-zag motion along specially designed, concave roads. This method is said to be both energy-efficient and ...
Discover the secrets behind the mesmerizing magic tricks performed by the Silverman statue, known as Valentine the Statue. In ...
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A Married Couple in New Orleans Found a Stone in Their Backyard. It Turned Out to Be an Ancient Roman Soldier’s Gravestone
Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and her husband Aaron Lorenz found the stone behind their home in ...
Archaeologists confirmed the Moai statues on Easter Island were moved using ropes and roads by the Rapa Nui people.
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