According to her, in 1981 archeologists from Azerbaijan showed the petroglyphs of this boat at an international conference on ancient civilizations. Heyerdahl then compared it with the picture of another boat from Norway and found that “it was very difficult to say which one was from Gobustan and which from Norway. So he came to Gobustan in 1982 and studied its boat petroglyph and concluded that “the Norwegians came from Gobustan.”