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Thor Heyerdahl: The Tigris Expedition
In 1977, Thor Heyerdahl built a reed boat, the Tigris (the name for the Tiger in Latin), whose task was to demonstrate that trade and migration contacts could exist between Mesopotamia and Indian civilization as represented by modern Pakistan. The Tigris was built in Iraq and set sail with an international crew of 11 on board across the Persian Gulf to Pakistan, and from there to the Red Sea. After about five months of sailing, the Tigris, which retained its seaworthiness, was burned in Djibouti on April 3, 1978 in protest against the wars that erupted in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
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Genre: Adventure, Documentary, TV Movie
Director: Thor Heyerdahl
Actors: Asbjorn Damhus, Carlo Mauri, Germán Carrasco, Hans Peter Böhn, Norman Baker, Norris Brock, Rashad Nazir Salim, Thor Heyerdahl, Toru Suzuki, Yuri Senkevich
Country: West Germany
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