Crystal skulls found to be fakes

Posted on Friday, 11 July, 2008 | Comment icon

About this for the next instalment of the Indy franchise: "Indiana Jones and the Dodgy Antiques Dealer"? Less than three months after the Quai Branly Museum in Paris discovered that a crystal skull once proclaimed as a mystical Aztec masterpiece was a fake, it is now the turn of the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution to find they were victims of skull-duggery.

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#8 Posted by The Florida Hoosier on 11 July, 2008, 15:45

They aren't all fake.

#9 Posted by Cradle of Fish on 11 July, 2008, 18:59

Skepticism is good because if there is anything otherworldly out there it should stand up to actual scrutiny, which these didn't.

#10 Posted by Blueguardian on 12 July, 2008, 9:06

They arn't made out of crystal? .

#11 Posted by Samael on 12 July, 2008, 9:21

Well, HA to the British Museum and Smithsonian Institution.Shouldn't it have been obvious ages ago that ancient civilisations couldn't make something like that?

#12 Posted by Azatarai on 15 July, 2008, 19:09

I Still think that the Mitchell Hodges Crystal Skull is real...

#13 Posted by MaggieDruydess on 15 July, 2008, 19:14

Mine isn't old but it's made of Rose Quartz and I still like it. I have a dozen others as well that are smaller and made from various stones; Sodalite, Onyx, Smokey and Clear Quartz, Tigers Eye etc. I do think it is possible the Mitchel Hedges skull is very old but with it being tested such will never be proven.

#14 Posted by Pax Unum on 15 July, 2008, 20:02

well, it's made of real crystal...

#15 Posted by Incorrigible1 on 15 July, 2008, 23:39

And was made by real people........

#16 Posted by Paracelse on 16 July, 2008, 0:07

Actually the pre-dynastic Egyptian were able to drill marble with tools that didn't exist until the 19th century and are considered as fake also, except they were dated to be 5000 years old, but science do those things, just like the Baghdad batteries were considered as cult object, because no one could create electricity 2000 years ago....

#17 Posted by FlyingTurtle on 19 July, 2008, 3:21

I hated that they were fakeI believed so bad in them! But not like NA or somethinganyway I couldnt wait to the minute when the 13 were found and something cool happened suddenlyThey were so cool!

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