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We Might Finally Know How Easter Island’s Giant Statues Moved

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You’ve seen them before and have probably heard their legend—the moai statues of Easter Island—the giant stone heads that weigh a few tons each. There has long been evidence to suggest that they were not constructed at the site where they are currently erected. So, how did they get there? Who moved them, and how did they do it? Well, researchers might have finally figured it out. In a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science,…

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A team of scientists revealed a new method that would explain how the inhabitants of Easter Island moved the Moai, the emblematic stone statues that characterize this remote territory located 3,510 kilometers from mainland Chile.The finding was made by researchers from the University of Binghamton and the University of Arizona, who managed to recreate the movement of the statues with a three-dimensional model.The results allowed validating an an…

By experimenting with a replica of the Moai of Easter Island, archaeologists suggest that these statues could have "walked" to their ceremonial locations, drawn with strings so as to make vertical and oscillating movements. They showed that this type of displacement required only a relatively small number of people, the physics sufficient to easily advance these colossals on managed roads, despite their size. The way in which the moai of the isl…

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Vice broke the news in New York, United States on Sunday, October 12, 2025.
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