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 ...

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 Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named ...

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. A delegation of Easter ...

Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 raft trip from Peru to Polynesia was punctuated by dangers, yet most of its 101 days were spent in the doldrums. “Kon-Tiki,” the earnest new movie about ...

Before there was digital simulation, there were real-life adventurers who wondered “what it?” Norwegian archaeologist Capt. Thor Heyerdahl was one of them, and when this Sept. 18, 1947 photo was taken ...