Strange statues of tens of tons?

For centuries, scientists have been trying to find solutions to the question of how the ancients used to be able to move giant stone statues on Easter Island.

Located isolated between the vast sea, Easter Island - a small island in the South Pacific known for nearly 1,000 stone statues with very special shapes: only the head, upper body, part below the waist and no legs. Weighing in the tens of tons, the distance from the carved place to the location they were estimated to be about 18 km, these rocks were somehow pulled without the aid of wheels, cranes or magnetic traction. large animals.

The picture depicts how to move a giant stone statue on Easter Island.(Photo: National Geographic)

Previously, scientists who conducted many ideas but did not bring satisfactory results. Recently, after many efforts to learn and research, an archaeological group has discovered a new hypothesis that is considered quite reasonable (at least until now). Accordingly, Moai - stone bust figures carved on Easter Island - are placed vertically and pulled away with human strength and several ropes.

Two experts Terry Hunt (University of Hawaii) and Carl Lipo (University of Long Beach, California) worked together with indigenous archaeologist Sergio Rapu to develop this idea. They observed that the belly protruding on each statue allowed them to lean forward easily, so that the operator could make them move.

Hunt and Lipo also made a statement after a successful experiment: only 3 sturdy ropes with a bit of experience, a group of 18 people could easily move quickly a 3 meter tall, 5-ton statue. go a few hundred meters away.

In an attempt to solve the mystery, Czech engineer Pavel Pavel worked with a team of 17 people to help build a 4-meter-tall building of nine tons like the Moai by twisting motion .

A year later, American archaeologist Charles and a team of 25 people erected a 4m-tall statue, weighed nine tons, standing on a wooden plate weighing 1 ton and moving it on one roll, pushing away for 2 minutes. .

However, the above experiments are just hypotheses and the question of how such monolithic rocks were erected made archaeologists wasting so much effort to find out is still a mystery without solution. answer . Ask the natives, the answer received is not better. " We simply understand that these statues go," said Suri Tuki, a 25-year-old tour guide.

Reference: National Geographic