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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day 60 years ago, a balsa wood raft called the Kon-Tiki completed a voyage from South America to Polynesia. The trip, headed by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, proved that ancient Peruvians ...

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 ...