WHAT ARE THE CRYSTAL SKULLS?
G'day folks,
Here is something that might interest you.
Beginning in
the late 19th century, around a dozen carved skulls made of clear or milky
white quartz—also known as rock crystal—made their way into private and public
collections around the globe. Since then, the origins of these “crystal skulls”
have been the subject of ongoing mystery and controversy.
According to the
people who claimed to have discovered the skulls, they date back thousands or
even tens of thousands of years, to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations such as
the Aztec, Toltec, Mixtec or Maya. Many of those who believe in the crystal
skulls’ ancient provenance attribute supernatural powers to the objects,
including healing properties and the power to expand a person’s psychic
abilities in their presence. Some have linked the skulls to the lost city of
Atlantis, or claimed them as proof that extraterrestrials visited pre-Columbian
civilizations such as the Aztecs. The 2008 movie “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull” capitalized on the ongoing mystery, as well as the
passion the skulls’ believers bring to their side of the argument.
Scientists and
archaeologists, on the other hand, are skeptical. For one thing, not one of the
skulls was recovered on a documented excavation. And while skulls were a common
motif in ancient Mesoamerica, and particularly Aztec, artwork (several Aztec
gods are represented by skulls), the style and technique of the crystal skulls
do not resemble genuine pre-Columbian representations of skulls. Recently,
scientists from the British Museum in London and the Smithsonian Museum of
Natural History in Washington, D.C. conducted analyses of crystal skulls using
electron microscopes. After finding markings that could only have been made by
modern-day carving implements—rather than the stone, bone and wooden tools that
would have been used in pre-Colombian times—they concluded that the skulls were
likely fakes. The scientists believe they were probably manufactured in the
late 1800s, in response to a surge of interest in the ancient world and its
artifacts.
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