Discovering Norway

Historical Museum/Museum of Cultural history, University of Oslo: Viking era, medieval ages and 9000 YEARS of Norway’s archaeological heritage. The Ethnographic exhibitions tell the lives of African and Artic peoples and highlighted from East Asia. But we didn’t get to see the two new permanent, exhibitions, from America and Egypt. Because they are still under construction. www.khm.uio.no

The Shaman, Noaiti, acted as an intermediary between humans and the hidden powers. In 18th Century the Christian confiscated the drum. Used by Sami people. Fire catalyst, made of ashes, water, and dry for a week, specific fungus, put it in the cassis soda.

Kon-tiki – www.kon-tiki.no/events
The Kon-Tiki Museum, institute for pacific archeology and cultural history.
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002). The Kon-Tiki Expedition, In 1947, he and his crew crossed 5,000 miles of Pacific Ocean on board the balsa raft Kon-Tiki. It took 101 days and proved that Polynesia was in the range of balsa rafts from South America.

Easter Island, in 1955, he went on an archeological expedition to Easter Island to study the mystery of the giant moai statues.

Ra II sailed from Morocco in 1970 manned by 8 men from 8 nations and reached Barbados in the Caribbean 57 days later. Heyerdahl demonstrated that Old World sailors could have influenced the pre-Colombia civilization of Central America.

Tigris – The reed boat Tigris crossed the Indian Ocean from Asia to Africa in 1978. It proved that there could have been contact between Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley thousands of years ago. The Tigris was burnt in April 1978 in protest against the sales of arms to developing nations.