Ancient Mystery · 1200 AD

Why Were All 900 Moai Pushed Face-Down by 1868?

There are nearly nine hundred stone heads on a Pacific island two thousand miles from anywhere. The smallest weighs ten tons. The largest, never finished, weighs two hundred and seventy.

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