Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.

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

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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 ...

The Moai statues of Easter Island have some of the best views of the night sky on Earth. Sometimes a photo can captivate so powerfully that you are transported to another place and time.

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum Returns Artifacts to Chile's Remote Easter Island COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late ...

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