While many of the legends surrounding crystal skulls have been debunked, the small, roughly carved skull in the National Museum of Anthropology's collection seems to be genuine. A Final Takeoff ...

Crystal skulls are not uncommon or terribly mysterious ... recent electron microscope analyses of skulls by the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution revealed markings that could only ...

Since quartz crystal does not corrode ... by a grinding wheel had been found on both the British Museum and Smithsonian skulls which, we were told, suggested that they were of more modern European ...

A replica of the skull of Robert Kennicott ... within the ornate red sandstone walls of the Smithsonian Castle. It’s not the real thing but an eerily precise replica fashioned by the Smithsonian ...

After that, the skull sat in storage – until the library was on the move. “Last year, when we were packing up and getting ready,” Cyr said, she contacted The Smithsonian Institute in ...

That resident was, of course, the fossil skull of a Triceratops dinosaur that had sat on display at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History for decades. In May, a team from the ...