6 октября 2025

The KON-TIKI is a simple raft made of balsa wood, on which Norwegian archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl
and his team sailed from South America to Polynesia to prove that ancient Indians could have done the
same. Then, to prove that the ancient Egyptians could visit America, he twice tried to cross the Atlantic
in RA boats. The first one is expected (otherwise why would the second one be needed?) it fell apart, but
on the second copy the Tour was still able to reach the New World. Does this prove that the Indians or the
Egyptians really crossed the oceans? Absolutely not. But it proves that they could do it! Experimental
archaeology is the name of this adventurous science.
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