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 ...

OSLO, Norway -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to recreate the ...

Heyerdahl called his raft Kon-Tiki (the name of a legendary ancestor of the Polynesian islanders), and the Kon-Tiki expedition was hailed as one of the great maritime feats of all time. I still ...

"You give your life to the raft..." Dogwoof has debuted the official trailer for a film titled The Raftsmen, a documentary exploring a remarkable true story from the 1970s that most probably don't ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Artifacts and ...