Archaeologists Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo, who are studying how prehistoric inhabitants of Easter Island transported the region’s iconic, monolithic figures (called “moai”) from place to place, figured out that it can take as little as 18 people and some rope to “walk” the 10-foot tall, 5-ton statues into place.
The absolutle best part of this is that it validates the mythology of the islanders, which claims that the moai used to walk across the island.
