Whatever legends are attached to the crystal skull of the British Museum in London, one fact stands out. No other object in the museum's extensive collection has acquired such a cult following ...

The British Museum is circumspect, pointing out that no crystal skull has ever been found at a well-documented, official excavation. As for me, I couldn’t say it better than Indiana Jones ...

A British Museum study in fact pinpointed the manufacture of most of the skulls to an area of Germany famous for manufacturing intricate quartz and crystal designs in the late 19th century.

James Di Loreto, NMNH The crystal skull sought by Harrison Ford as Indiana ... She took it to London’s British Museum, whose collections contain two similar skulls. Margaret Sax, a materials ...

The British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution have been home to crystal skulls that turn out to be much more recent in age than the alleged pre-Columbian times. A smiliar fake was found in ...

Crystal skulls such as that at the Musee du Quai Branly have been displayed in museums all over the world (the British Museum and the Smithsonian, for example) but all have proven to be fakes ...

The Mitchell-Hedges Skull is not the first such quasi-treasure. They've been around since the 1800s. The British Museum’s crystal skull, often referred to as the Mittler Skull, was acquired in ...

just as she had done with another big crystal skull her museum had owned for over a century. It, too, was supposed to be ancient Mexican. Sponsor Message But just like the British specimen ...

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 ...