Remarkable new statue found on Easter Island

There are somewhere around 1,000 moai statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The tallest of the moai measures 33 feet tall and, on average, each statue weighs around 14 tons. Given that they were created somewhere between the 1200s and 1500 CE, by locals using tools made from obsidian and then, somehow, were transported from quarries, using nothing but manpower, makes them a frigging miracle. — Read the rest
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