Kon-Tiki expedition, 1947. Across the Pacific. (photo credit: Nasjonalbiblioteket from Norway is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons) The Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo announced on Wednesday ...

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members began a trip from Peru to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki, a raft made of balsa logs and other natural materials. The voyage covered 4,300 miles over 101 days.

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are ...

YEKATERINBURG, November 30. /TASS/. Adventurers in the expedition Kon-Tiki-2, bound for Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean since leaving Peru in early November and bidding to follow the route of ...

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. In 1947 ...

the Kon-Tiki. Heyerdahl, who died in 2002 aged 87, later made a 1955 expedition to Easter Island, where he and his team dug up some 5,600 artifacts with the understanding that they would ...