Did Easter Island's Mysterious Moai Statues Waddle to Their Final Locations? Here's What That May Have Looked Like

Did Easter Island's Mysterious Moai Statues Waddle to Their Final Locations? Here's What That May Have Looked Like

Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to "walk" the large statues across the island

Scientists Solved How Easter Island’s Massive Statues Walked Themselves Into Place

For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant human-faced moai statues hundreds of years ago. On average, these statues weighed dozens of tons. A new study has found that physics helped them transport the statues. They were walked “vertically,” not horizontally. The discovery […]