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Not particularly, but I think it's kinda cool how people made giant statues. I sometimes think it would be funny to buy some land along a highway somewhere and cast a big statue out of concrete.

>I've been obsessing over the origins of diseases right now
What did you find? To my knowledge, some viruses just randomly mutate to be passable to humans, and some of them have been with us for ages. As for bacterial/parasitic infections then I just don't know but it's more like those kind of lifeforms have always existed, more or less. Also not sure if I'm responding to the question you raise, so, what exactly are you thinking about?

>>22134
Yeah, these were carved out of volcanic tuff rock with a basalt carving tool called a toki. There are a bunch of theories on how they moved and erected them, probably a combination of ropes and log rollers. Some of these maoi have cute hats carved out of another type of volcanic rock that were added on top later.

>>22167
Its not so much the viruses themselves. They are pretty interesting. Its the way you can find traces of the pathogens in mummified corpses and bones and how things like architecture and living habits change because of disease.

>>22174
ancient lego brick

>>22174
Ah, I see. I would say it is about the spreading of the disease and not the "origins" though. Or IDK what you had in mind.
Definitely kinda exciting to learn how some diseases could spread though. Like, some patient zero got infected from a corpse or from a parasite-infested pet/livestock and it just destroyed societies or something.

>>22179
Lol