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 ...

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 — 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 ...

There was a time when virtually everyone knew the story of modern-day explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his balsawood raft, Kon-Tiki. In 1947, Norwegian ethnographer Heyerdahl decided the only way to prove ...

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 ...

OSLO, Norway - Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer who crossed the Pacific on a balsa log raft and detailed his harrowing 101-day voyage in the book "Kon-Tiki," died Thursday night. He was 87.

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 ...

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 ...