"On May 17, 1970, Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl & a multinational crew set out from Morocco across the Atlantic Ocean in Ra II, a papyrus sailing craft modeled after ancient Egyptian sailing vessels, attempting to prove his theory that Mediterranean civilizations sailed to America in ancient times & exchanged cultures with the people of Central & South America. The Ra II crossed the 4,000 miles of ocean to Barbados in 57 days":
"On May 17, 1970, Norwegian ethnologist #ThorHeyerdahl & a multinational crew set out from Morocco across the Atlantic Ocean in Ra II... The #RaII crossed the 4,000 miles of ocean to Barbados in 57 days":
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