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-Pacific, the Kon-Tiki Museum said Wednesday.

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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

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Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island

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

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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

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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.

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Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum returns artefacts to Easter Island

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — 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-Pacific, the Kon-Tiki Museum said Wednesday. In 1947, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed on a log raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to prove his theory — that the South Sea Islands were settled by seafarers from Sou…

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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.

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Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island

It took decades. But now the Kon-Tiki Museum is delivering old skulls and bones back to Easter Island.

Det tok flere tiår. Men nå leverer Kon-Tiki-museet gamle hodeskaller og knokler tilbake til Påskeøya.

Kon-Tiki-museet leverer levninger tilbake til Påskeøya

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A global museum trend is becoming increasingly common: Remains that Thor Heyerdahl brought to Norway in the 1950s are now to be returned to Easter Island.

En global museumstrend blir stadig vanligere: Levninger som Thor Heyerdahl hentet til Norge på 1950-tallet, skal nå leveres tilbake til Påskeøya.

Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile’s remote Easter Island

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