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Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum returns artefacts to Easter Island
Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are ...
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Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back to Easter Island
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 ...
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Kon-Tiki Museum launches return of excavated items to Easter Island
When Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl visited Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the 1950s, he conducted months of excavations that ...
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Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island
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 ...