EASTER ISLAND
The puzzles surrounding the moai(a place), Easter Island’s fleet of big stone figure, pretty much follow the same narrative as the other sites described here:-How in the world did the Rapa Nui make these figures more than 1,500 years ago? And how its possible?
Carved from stone, the nearly 900 human figures are sprinkled along the flanks of the island’s extinct volcanoes. The figures average 13 feet tall and weigh 14 tons and appear to have been chiseled from the soft volcanic(heat hill) tuff found in the Rano Raraku quarry. There, more than 400 statues are still in many other states of construction, with some completed figures awaiting transportation to their thought resting place.
The reasons for carving the moai are mysterious, though they were likely sculpted for religious or ritual(like ritual reason) reasons. It’s also not exactly clear what happened to the stone crafting Rapa Nui, but a leading theory suggests their civilization succumbed to an environmental disaster of their own making. which is something that probably could have been prevented had ancient aliens bestowed their infinite wisdom upon the culture.
Source:nationalgeographic.com
Source:nationalgeographic.com
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