Tigris expedition
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The Tigris expedition was a four-month, 4,000-mile voyage in 1977 undertaken by Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl. He and his crew traveled in a reed boat from the Tigris River in Iraq, down the Persian Gulf and across the Arabian Sea to Pakistan, concluding in the Red Sea. The expedition aimed to demonstrate the possibility that ancient Sumerians could have spread their culture through Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula using similar reed boats. Heyerdahl documented this journey in his book, The Tigris Expedition.1
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