Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island
1 day ago · In this photo provided by the Kon-Tiki Museum press service on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, people look at artifacts and human remains taken from Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s, during the “repatriation” ceremony at the Kon Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.
Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back …
10 hours ago · Thor Heyerdahl, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 87, traveled in 1955 to Easter Island, where he and his team unearthed 5,600 objects to take to Norway, promising to return them someday to ...
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island
1 day ago · Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific
Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island
1 day ago · 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 Island and Chilean officials took part in a ceremony at the Oslo museum, the museum said. The items returned were skulls from the Rapa Nui, the first ...
An Easter Island Promise Is Kept - Newser
1 day ago · A book about Thor Heyerdahl's voyage—he died in 2002 at the age of 87—has become an international bestseller, and his film of the journey won an Academy Award for best documentary in 1951 ...
Easter Island artifacts returned by Norwegian museum | CTV News
1 day ago · 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 in the mid ...
Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum returns artefacts to Easter Island
1 day ago · Covering about 63 square miles and home to about 7,700 people, half of them with Rapa Nui ancestry, Easter Island was formed at least 750,000 years ago by volcanic eruptions and is one of the ...
Kon-Tiki Museum launches return of items to Easter Island - Norway…
2 hours ago · 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 further examination. Now many of them are finally being returned to the small island community off the coast of Chile, and they include human remains.
Norway museum returns human remains to Easter Island - RTÉ
1 day ago · Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum has returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island
He brought 5,600 objects back from Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. This is the third time objects taken by him are being returned. Many have been stored and displayed at the Kon-Tiki Museum ...