Ancient Cure
Up for another strange Moai theory? Dr. Anneliese Pontius, a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, proposed that islanders constructed the impressive Moai as a cure for leprosy. After witnessing extreme deformities on the face, fingers, arms and hands, the people hoped to build perfect specimens from their perspective. Thus, hoping to undo all the destruction on the sufferers of leprosy.

Ancient Cure
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