Crystal Skulls

History of the Crystal Skulls Related to the history about how the crystal skulls first appeared, we have to go back to the 19th century. At the turn of the century, a number of large museums in the world became very intrigued by old artifacts that were being discovered in various ancient ruins and to put on display these items for their visitors. Thus, during the mid-late 1800's, there were two crystal skulls resembling a human-bone skull which were placed on exhibition. These two skulls are still in the possession of the British Museum in London and the Musée de l'homme (The Museum of Man) in Paris. Quite a few other crystal skulls surfaced in the late 1800's but were kept in private hands. As we moved into the 20th century, other well known crystal skulls came into the "light of day" including: the famous Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull (1924, Belize, a two piece skull comprised of clear quartz); "Ami", the Amethyst Crystal Skull (unsure if it came to light in the late 1800's or early 1900's in Mexico, single piece); "ET", a smoky quartz somewhat-alien looking skull (1906, Guatemala, dug up by a Mayan family, single piece); "Max", clear quartz skull (1926, Mexico, discovered in a tomb) and quite a number of others. The true interest in the crystal skulls truly exploded in the middle part of the 1970's when the book by Richard Garvin entitled "The Crystal Skull" was published. This book featured the Mitchell-Hedges Skull and the work done with this skull by Frank Dorland, an art curator in California. Mr. Dorland subsequently appeared on a few TV programs discussing his work with this crystal skull and this started the first major wave of curiosity about the crystal skulls. In 1980, crystal skull expert and researcher, F. R. 'Nick' Nocerino, founder of the Society of Crystal Skulls International began to offer public presentations and later in 1989, working with Sandra Bowen and Joshua Shapiro published the second book that provided a thorough discussion a