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 ...

Replicas of the Moai have become popular in recent years as garden fixtures and fun tiki collectibles ... Although they are known as Easter Island “heads,” most have torsos and some are ...

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum Returns Artifacts to Chile's Remote Easter Island COPENHAGEN ... we are about to achieve,” said Liv Heyerdahl, head of the museum and the explorer's granddaughter.

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 ...

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are being returned to Chile’s Easter Island in the mid-Pacific. In 1947 ...