Thor Heyerdahl's DARING Atlantic Ocean Quest🌊 | Today in History (1970)

MAY 17 2025 · 12:00

In 1970, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and a multinational crew launched Ra II, a papyrus boat modeled after ancient Egyptian ships, from Morocco on a daring 4,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados in 57 days. This epic expedition aimed to prove Heyerdahl's theory that ancient Mediterranean civilizations could have reached the Americas long before Columbus. Known for his earlier 1947 Kon-Tiki voyage across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, Heyerdahl challenged mainstream h