In 2008, Stephen Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark 4: Crystal Skull Kingdom was released. Since in this film, the "crystal skull" as the "protagonist" is given the ability to make people look forward to the past and the future, for a time the "crystal skull" became a household name in the world, and people have discussed whether the film's objects are real.
As for why it is clear that this is only a movie, it will also attract everyone's discussion of "crystal skull", rather than a sentence of "this is a prop", everyone laughs and stops the discussion.
The reason for this is that there are really "crystal skulls" in the museum, and the British Museum has several in it. The magical function of the "crystal skull" in the movie is not made up by the screenwriter. It is an allegory based on oral tradition passed down by Native Americans.
In the mouths of native Americans, "crystal skulls" were made by their ancestors, and the number is limited to 12. Similar to the setting that we are familiar with in the "Dragon Ball", you can summon the dragon, in the fable, as long as someone can collect 12 "crystal skulls", you can see the past and future of human beings, simply put, you can travel through time and space.
The legend of the "crystal skull" was not taken seriously at the earliest time, after all, after the baptism of the Enlightenment, everyone already had a strong immunity to this kind of god-like thing.
However, with the discovery of "crystal skulls" in large quantities in the early 20th century, some people began to stop sticking to the bottom line and began to riot in their actions, believing in the myth of "crystal skulls" trumpeted by occult enthusiasts.
One of the most sensational events in the world was the discovery of the "doom skull" in British Honduras in 1927 by the British explorer Michel.
The Doom Skull is famous because it is too complete and beautiful compared to other "Crystal Skulls". If you look closely, the whole head is not only the size of a humanoid, but when you look inside through the crystal, its structure is almost exactly the same as that of a human.
What's even more amazing is that this skull will also give people a variety of "supernatural" experiences, such as people staring at it for a long time, and the entire "crystal head" will begin to change color. When the head is quiet, it will constantly tremble and make a subtle sound, and the sound can make people feel depressed for a long time, and even thirst.
It is precisely because there are so many magical things that people who have seen it are more and more convinced that the widely circulated Native American fable will not be true, and the "crystal skull" will be directly held on the altar.
But not everyone is fanatical, and the doubts about the "crystal skull" are never stopped, when Michelle brought the "skull" back to Europe to show it in the early days. Someone had already asked him about the provenance of the skull. Michelle's attitude was a flickering answer: I have reason not to reveal how I own it.
Years later, Michelle's adopted daughter Anna said more bluntly that it was discovered by her father in 1927 while inspecting the ruins of the ancient city of Rotum in Honduras, and that it was "picked up" at a Mayan temple.
But this argument is weak, because through the investigation of the ruins of the Mayan civilization in all aspects, mainstream public opinion has not found that the Maya also have the custom of making skull collections. The use of human skulls as decorations or sacrificial objects is known only to be commonly used by the Aztecs.
However, there is no evidence that this man's skull is fake, and on the issue of the "crystal skull", followers and opponents have been holding each other for nearly a hundred years since then, during which more and more people claim to have found the "crystal skull", conservatively estimating more than 20, which has already exceeded 12 in the fable.
In 2004, a group of lovely people entered the game, and the cultural research experts of the technical flow, shirtless challenged the occult enthusiasts to admire the "crystal skull".
Experts at the British Empire Museum brought in electron scanning microscopes to examine several legendary Mayan crystal skulls and rip their leggings.
The result is very ruthless for the followers of the "Crystal Skull". Because they trace back to the Mayan or Aztec civilizations, they were all in the era of hand-sanding utensils, so the objects that passed through their hands often had very uneven polishing scratches.
But the "crystal skull" can not be found, every detail is unusually smooth, the skeleton has obvious traces of modern industrial machine tools, and finally experts concluded: "All of these crystal skulls are carved from modern gem processing machine wheels using industrial diamonds, and polished by modern machinery." ”
At the same time, compared with the industrial products of various countries that appeared in the same period, experts also believe that this batch of crystal skeletons that suddenly appeared is most likely from Germany. And give a reasonable guess to Idar Oberstein, which was once the center of handicraft processing in Germany.
If the experiment at the British Museum in 2004 is true, the "crystal skull" may be a great deception carefully woven by merchants to sell crafts at a good price, combined with the unknowns of ancient Civilization in the Americas at that time.
But there are still a group of people who firmly believe that the "crystal skull" is real, and they take this as their belief.