Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to ...

During his many visits to the Pacific, Norwegian explorer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl made numerous excursions to Easter ...

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

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 ...

Google has created an interactive doodle to commemorate the birthday of the late Norwegia ethongrapher and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl The internet giant has created one of its iconic illustrations ...

In case you can’t get enough of the little pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there’s now an official song featuring the ...

Find words that mean: local, isolated, the study of animal life in a particular region, lived in, no longer believed something was perfect Thor Heyerdahl's father was a brewer. But the young ...

Minister says digitisation of Norwegian schools has failed, museum to return remains to Easter Island, and other news from ...

Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

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

In 1947, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed on a log raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to prove his theory — that the South Sea Islands were settled by seafarers from South America.

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 ...