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

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 ...

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

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for ... while Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl believed them to look more like heads of hair. Prof Lipo said this incorrect ...

Thor Heyerdahl has estimated that the distance that can be covered using this method in rough terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet ...

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

In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl made a journey by raft ... voyages of discovery and soon after they discovered Easter Island, which is extremely remote, and also later settling New ...

Ahu Vinapu was one of the most important ahu on Easter Island. The precisely fitted large basalt cut slabs have perplexed some archaeologists, in particular Thor Heyerdahl. He points to this Inca ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

Find words that mean: local, isolated, the study of animal life in a particular region, lived in, no longer believed something was perfect Thor ... Islands. Heyerdahl went to the island of Fatu ...