Kon Tiki Museum in Oslo to return human remains to delegation from Easter Island
During his many visits to the Pacific, Norwegian explorer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl made numerous excursions to Easter Island and actually removed no less than 5,600 items which were sent
Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back to Easter Island
Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to take back the spirits of the remains.
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island
Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.
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 revealed thousands of items he was allowed to take back to Norway for further examination.
Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum returns artefacts to Easter Island
In 1947, the anthropologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl sailed on a log raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days in order to prove his theory – that the South Sea Islands were ...
Museo Kon-Tiki de Noruega devuelve piezas a la remota Isla de Pascua en Chile
Un museo de Oslo está devolviendo piezas arqueológicas y restos humanos tomados por un explorador y antropólogo noruego a finales de la década de 1940 al territorio remoto de la Isla de Pascua, en el Pacífico,
El Museo Kon Tiki, En Noruega, Devuelve Restos Humanos A La Isla De Pascua
El museo noruego Kon Tiki devolvió el miércoles a la Isla de Pascua restos humanos que el explorador Thor Heyerdahl había llevado a Noruega tras sus exploraciones a bordo del Kon Tiki en 1947.
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Evidence found of epic prehistoric Pacific voyages
In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl made a journey by raft from South America to Polynesia to demonstrate the voyage was possible. Until now, proponents of Native American and Polynesian ...
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Bible verse - Mark 8:30-31; quote by Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.