The Crystal Skulls
Crystal is a substance which has a hardness of 7 as compared to diamond which is rated a hardness of 10. It requires either other quartz crystals or special diamond tools to attempt to carve a crystal skull. The hardest part to duplicate in carving a crystal skull are the various angles and shapes of the bone which comprise the skull and the jaw. Most ancient crystal skulls discovered are single piece skulls with only the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull showing a detachable jaw (see the Rose Quartz Skull listed below). Even utilizing the most sophisticated lasers of today, it would be an incredible challenge to precisely cut a crystal skull to exactly match our own human skull. Of course this does not even begin to address the strange psychic phenomena that has been recorded to occur in the presence of an ancient Crystal Skull, which in my humble opinion is the most important reason for the existence of the crystal skulls and a tangible clue as to their ultimate purpose.
A Brief Summary of known Ancient Crystal Skulls
The list of ancient crystal skull below is based on various parapsychological research done on a number of skulls. There is no known process that can date a crystal skull. Carbon 14 dating works only on organic substances of which quartz crystal is not. Therefore, all we can do at the present time is work with trained sensitives and observe people's experiences in the presence of a crystal skull. If a large majority of these individuals believe that a particular crystal skull feels to be very old (a thousand or more years), then we generally consider this would be an ancient crystal skull. We are hoping in the future to come up with specific criteria and classes to rate each new crystal skull that appears.
The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull -- a human size and shaped, clear quartz skull, 11.7 lbs, two pieces with a separate jaw, discovered in Belize in 1924 in the ruins of a Mayan City by F. A. Mitchell-Hedges. This skull is currently near Toronto, Canada with Anna Mitchell-Hedges, his adopted daughter. The skull is an almost absolute copy of our own human skull except it is circular in the temples and has a handle like form in the cheekbones. When the skull is not activated, it is clear as glass.
"MAX", the Texas Crystal Skull -- one piece, single clear quartz, 18lbs, held by the Parks of Houston, Texas, who received the skull from a Tibetan trained healer when he passed on. The healer received the skull as a gift from the local people in Guatemala. In the past year and a half, "MAX" has been touring the United States and has participated in a number of Native American ceremonies.
The "British" Crystal Skull -- a single piece clear quartz skull, held in the British Museum of Man, in London, England since 1898, purportedly found or bought by a soldier of fortune in Mexico in the late 1890's. This skull is more cloudy than the Mitchell-Hedges and its facial features appear not to be finished.
The "Paris" Crystal Skull -- a single piece of clear quartz, held in the Trocadero Museum in Paris, France, also purported obtained by a soldier of Fortune in Mexico in the late 1890's. It has a hole cut from top to bottom, purported to hold a Christian Cross and has the most primitive of faciail features and design within this list.
The "Amethyst" Crystal Skull -- a single piece of amethyst crystal discovered in a Mayan cache of artifacts in Mexico by a Mayan Brotherhood in the early 1900's. It is purported this skull maybe in Texas right now and for sale. The distinction features are the circular indentations in the temple and a white squiggley line that goes the circumference of the skull ( Editor's Note: This was the first ancient crystal skull that I experienced in person.... ).
The "Mayan" Crystal Skull, a single piece of clear quartz, found in Guatemala in 1912, similar in shape and design to the Amethyst Crystal Skull pictured here. The current whereabouts are unknown.
"ET"-- a smoky quartz single piece skull, discovered on the property of a Mayan family in Central America in the early 1900's which has a slightly pointed head and the teeth has an overbite (Joke Van Dieten, caretaker).
A Peruvian Crystal Skull has been reported in the northern part of this country clear quartz with blue in the eyes and blue seen from on top of the head currently held by a primitive tribe in this region of Peru.