Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew arrived in Polynesia after 101 days at sea aboard the Kon-Tiki raft on this day in history, August 7, 1947. Hyderdahl, along with five crewmen (and one ...

In Heyerdahl’s 1950 Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft —a lively chronicle that sold more than 50 million copies and was translated into nearly 70 languages—and his 1950 Academy Award-winning ...

Kon-Tiki (2012) follows Thor Heyerdahl’s daring 1947 voyage across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft. He sets sail with a small crew to prove his theory that South America, not Asia, populated ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile’s remote territory of Easter ...

OSLO, Norway -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to recreate the ...

The story of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic trip across the Pacific Ocean has been told before, and often. But in Kon-Tiki, the... Early in Kon-Tiki, a dramatization of Thor ...

April 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Maryland ratified the U.S. Constitution, becoming the seventh state of the Union. In 1789, the most famous of all naval mutinies took place aboard ...

The seagoing raft Kon-Tiki, modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa, is carrying six Scandinavian adventurer-anthropologists on a voyage of historical induction (TIME, April 21). After four days of ...

British producer Jeremy Thomas prides himself on sticking with his passion projects for as long as it takes to find a way to get them made. But even by his standards, the making of “Kon-Tiki” was a ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile’s remote territory of Easter Island ...