New research suggests Easter Island's moai were stood up vertically and 'walked' along carefully crafted roads.
For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...
Researchers were confused about how the ancient people of Rapa Nui moved the iconic Moai statues, and physics might have confirmed this.
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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 ...
A research team has confirmed via 3D modeling and field experiments that the ancient people of Rapa Nui "walked" the iconic ...
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki near the Rano Raraku volcano, top, on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ...
“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...
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