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 ...
(photo credit: Nasjonalbiblioteket from Norway is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons) The Kon-Tiki Museum in ...
In 1947, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed on a log raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to prove his theory — ...