Experts: Crystal Skulls are fake

These findings are due to appear in The Journal of Archaeological Science:

...re­search sug­gests two well-known crys­tal skulls, in the Brit­ish Mu­se­um and the Smith­so­nian In­sti­tu­tion in Wash­ing­ton, are not, af­ter all, from an­cient Mex­i­co. Aca­demics now be­lieve the Brit­ish skull was made in 19th-cen­tu­ry Eu­rope and the Amer­i­can one even later.

The Brit­ish Mu­se­um bought its skull, a life-size carv­ing from a sin­gle block of rock crys­tal, from Tif­fa­ny and Co., New York, in 1897, ...and a larg­er white quartz skull do­nat­ed to the Smith­so­nian in 1992.

The scientists have concluded that, because the source of the quartz used was probably Bra­zil or Mad­a­gas­car (and ancient cultures didn't communicate), and because both skulls "were carved with ro­ta­ry disc-shaped tool, a tech­nol­o­gy the an­cient Mex­i­cans didn’t have" - that therefore they were made in modern times.

Both assumptions are at odds with those who believe in advanced ancient cultures, but in this case I think the orthodox scientists are correct.