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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 writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha , for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (Norwegian pronunciation: [tuːr ˈhæ̀ɪəɖɑːɫ]; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.
The voyage of Ra begins with Thor Heyerdahl visiting Easter Island and discovering depictions of reed boats with masts and sails. He subsequently wanted to show that prehistoric civilizations, on both sides of the Atlantic, could have been in contact with each other by means of reed boats.
In 1977, Heyerdahl led the construction of his largest reed vessel—18 meters long—where the rivers Euphrates and Tigris flow together in the former Mesopotamia. The boat was named Tigris. They started the voyage from the river Shatt al-Arab in Iraq.
16 Νοε 2024 · Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer who organized and led the famous Kon-Tiki (1947) and Ra (1969–70) transoceanic scientific expeditions. Both expeditions were intended to prove the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts between distant civilizations and cultures.
Thor Heyerdahl’s first expedition in 1947 was talked about all over the world. The journey across the Pacific Ocean on a balsawood raft named Kon-Tiki sparked interest in science and experimental archaeology and of all those looking for an adventure.
The Search for Odin (Norwegian: Jakten på Odin) is the project title of Thor Heyerdahl 's last series of archaeological excavations, which took place in (Tanais) in Russia.
