Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during ...

When Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl visited Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the 1950s, he conducted months of excavations that revealed thousands of items he was allowed to take back to Norway for ...

Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to ...

In 1947, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed on a log raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to prove his theory — ...

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are being returned to Chile’s Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.

Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

The story follows Thor Heyerdahl, an explorer who goes on a thrilling journey along an ancient path across the Pacific ocean on a balsa wood raft taking his five royal friends. The story surrounds ...

The famous explorer Thor Heyerdahl investigated the Gobustan petroglyphs and concluded that the oldest known images of a pirogue boat are found there. He also made a sensational hypothesis about a ...

Remembering Thor Heyerdahl Jr., who devoted his life’s work to honoring the legacy of his explorer father of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition.

From its majestic citadel, overlooking the River Shannon waterscapes, The Kon T iki derived its name from an 1947 raft expedition,across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Islands, ...