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How Polynesia came to be inhabited is still one of the world’s great mysteries

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

Later this month, a boat builder from Lake Titicaca in Bolivia will fly to the Russian city of Sochi to begin work on a 40-foot craft made from papyrus reeds. A German-led expedition hopes Fermín Limachi’s construction skills will see them safely across the Black Sea and eventually on to Athens.

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