Crystal Skulls
Feb. 18th, 2023 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloUs New Agers think the crystal skulls are technology from lost Atlantis.
Wikipedia, which on subjects like this is vigorously patrolled by the sort of sceptic who is really a doctrinaire materialist, thinks they are 19th century fakes.
The Smithsonian, surprisingly, acknowledges that we don't really know either way and has identified an example in a Mexican museum that it thinks may be genuinely ancient.
The case against them being old, rests, so far as I can make out, on the assumption that ancient peoples didn't have the kind of machine tools that would seem to have been used in their manufacture- but this is only an assumption- and one that is beginning to seem questionable. Because, for example, if they didn't have machine tools how on earth did the most ancient Egyptians of whom we have record manage to make the precisely engineered stone vessels that were found buried under the pyramid of Djoser?
Wikipedia, which on subjects like this is vigorously patrolled by the sort of sceptic who is really a doctrinaire materialist, thinks they are 19th century fakes.
The Smithsonian, surprisingly, acknowledges that we don't really know either way and has identified an example in a Mexican museum that it thinks may be genuinely ancient.
The case against them being old, rests, so far as I can make out, on the assumption that ancient peoples didn't have the kind of machine tools that would seem to have been used in their manufacture- but this is only an assumption- and one that is beginning to seem questionable. Because, for example, if they didn't have machine tools how on earth did the most ancient Egyptians of whom we have record manage to make the precisely engineered stone vessels that were found buried under the pyramid of Djoser?
