A new study used an electron microscope to show that two
of the best known
crystal
skulls, which are on display at the British Museum in London
and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, are
modern fakes, because they were created with tools that
were not available to the ancient Mayans or Aztecs. But that
doesn't mean that ALL of the skulls are fakes.
In BBC News, Paul Rincon quotes archeologist Ian Freestone
as saying, "There are about a dozen or more of these crystal
skulls. Except for the British Museum skull and one in Paris,
they seem to have entered public awareness since the 60s,
with the interest in quartz and the New Age movement. It
does appear that people have been making them since then.
Some of them are quite good, but some of them look like they
were produced with a Black & Decker in someone's garage.
There seems to be the assumption that if it is roughly
worked, it is more likely to have been made by a traditional
society. That's untrue of course, because people were quite
sophisticated. They might not have had modern tools, but
they did a good job."
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