The Crystal skulls

[Xue Sheng]

Art of deception: Crystal skulls in British, US museums were fakes

 

[terryl965]

Well with the way of all society today why does this surprise anybody.

 

[jkembry]

Pretty cool....perhaps a marketing stunt for the movie thought of WAY AHEAD OF THE PREMIER....

 

[terryl965]

Pretty cool....perhaps a marketing stunt for the movie thought of WAY AHEAD OF THE PREMIER....

Could be, but here lies a problem do these Museum even check to see if it is authentic?

 

[Xue Sheng]

Pretty cool....perhaps a marketing stunt for the movie thought of WAY AHEAD OF THE PREMIER....

YES!!! It is the power of the skulls they new the movie was coming out way back in 1897

 

[jkembry]

That I don't know. Now sure how they would verify. Perhap it came from the vendor with a 'certificate of authenticity' for it limited edition run...like we have seen on TV so often.

 

[JadecloudAlchemist]

I know its fake but it would still be cool to have it.

Plus I could control hippies with it!!

 

[Xue Sheng]

I know its fake but it would still be cool to have it.

Plus I could control hippies with it!!

:lfao:

 

[tellner]

terry, some of those fakes were made in the 1850s. Gullibility isn't a new thing.

 

[Xue Sheng]

terry, some of those fakes were made in the 1850s. Gullibility isn't a new thing.

Yes...EXACTLY... now do you all SEE the power of the skulls... even back then they KNEW there wold be an Indiana Jones movie about them :uhyeah:

 

[Steel Tiger]

Could be, but here lies a problem do these Museum even check to see if it is authentic?

At the time when the crystal skulls were being "discovered" authentication usually took the form of asking an expert their opinion. What do you do if the expert is the one presenting the object? You have to accept it as real because they have a reputation and you don't. Its all very annoying, but modern techniques have allowed institutions to circumvent this process for the most part.

But people were also so desperate for anything from the past that authentication was quite slipshod (lets talk Piltdown shall we?) and frauds went undetected for a long time (Piltdown again, and the skull for that matter). Given what was coming out of Egypt, Mexico, and China, the more spectacular the object the better. It was a grand show of oneupmanship.