Crystal Skulls Faked

[theropods]

In the news of the not very surprising, the crystal skulls in the British Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian and Quai Branley Museum in Paris have been deemed to be of modern manufacture. Contrary to the claims of Indiana Jones, they can obviously be manufactured by modern techniques because you can by them at many rock shops. These appear to have been manufactured by an antiques dealer in the late 1800's and passed on as genuine pre-Columbian artifacts.

The skulls have tool marks on them that show they were made with modern tools and industrial class abrasives.

dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/09/crystal-skull-fake.html

 

[netslave]

Well, I think they were made with modern tools, and then transported back in time. That's how you explain it.

 

[HoosierHorn]

it took several looks for me to to finally read that as "Faked".

 

[Red Five]

Haha. "Who's Crystal?"

 

[FondrenRoad]

They are still legit. It is common knowledge that the majority of 19th century tool shops were run by aliens with time travel capability.

 

[Steel Shank]

Dang.

 

[Horn-N-LA]

How did they just now figure this out? Or were they hoping no one would discover it?

 

[DoobieWah]

Yeah, it was also in this month's Archaeology Magazine.

 

[jmatt]

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[DRAG69]

I slept with Crystal Skulls and trust me, they were not fake.

 

[zzzz]

This is a disappointment. I just paid a tidy sum at a garage sale for two of these.

 

[Uninformed]

Couldn't they just look to see if the eyes bulged out?

 

[TXHookem]

Dang!? Does this mean plexiglass skulls are fake, too !?

I am so tracking down that Nigerian antiques dealer!?

 

[Steinbeck]

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[Knoxville-Horn]

That's pretty sad because I thought the crystal skulls were the most realistic part of the Indiana Jones movie.

 

[Steel Shank]

TXhookem, looks like you're Skull ******.

 

[DRAG69]

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