Among the ancient civilizations in the world, the civilization created by the ancient Mayans living in Central America is the most puzzling: they seemed to have fallen from the sky and reached their peak from the 3rd to 9th century AD. It stopped suddenly. People don't know what happened in the 100 years of the 9th century AD. People only know that the construction of various huge pyramids, palaces and temples built by the Mayans suddenly stopped. All the Mayans seemed to have received some mysterious instructions and abandoned them. They moved to the more desolate mountains instead of the homes they worked so hard to build. This is a mystery left by the Mayans to future generations. Not only that, the Mayans also left another incredible mystery - the mysterious and uncanny crystal skull. Michelle Hedges A Mysterious Legend There is an ancient legend circulating among American Indians: In ancient times, there were 13 crystal skulls that could talk and sing. These crystal skulls contain information about the origin and death of human beings, which can help humans solve the mystery of life in the universe. The legend also believes that one day people will find all the crystal skulls, gather them together, integrate the great wisdom of mankind, and play their due role. This legend has been circulating in America for thousands of years. For a long time, people thought it was just a beautiful myth or a fairy tale. No one knew what the legendary crystal skull was. Judging from the content of the legend, it seemed to be an all-encompassing information library, and it was also like An omniscient book, but people know nothing about it and even doubt its existence. An unexpected discovery. European explorers in the 19th century believed in this legend, although no one had ever found the legendary crystal skulls. It wasn't until 1927 that the British girl Anna finally made an astonishing discovery on her birthday. Anna's adoptive father, Michael Hedges, is a British explorer and a member of the Mayan Culture Committee of the British Museum. He is obsessed and fanatical about the Mayan civilization. In 1924, Michel organized an expedition from Liverpool, England, to Central America along the waterway. Along with him was his beloved adopted daughter Anna. With the help of the local Mayans, the expedition finally discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the desolate tropical jungle of Belize, Central America today. This is an ancient city that was submerged by vines and big trees. It took the expedition team a whole year to make this ancient city show its former glory. Michel was stunned by the ruins of this ancient city. The height of the castle far exceeded the surrounding villages. It was 150 feet high and covered an area of ??6 square miles, including pyramids, palaces, tombs, walls and crypts. Every part of the castle They are all made of cut white stones. The Mayans actually used primitive stone axes to create such exquisite works, and their labor intensity is immeasurable. Influenced by her adoptive father since she was a child, 17-year-old Anna was also excited about everything in front of her. She carefully climbed to the top of the pyramid at the highest point of the castle to have a panoramic view of the gorgeous scenery of the tropical jungle. It was precisely because of her original curiosity that a great mystery of the Mayans came to light. While Anna was admiring the scenery, she suddenly noticed something shining deep in the cracks of the pyramid. She immediately told her adoptive father, and Michelle took all members of the expedition team to the top of the pyramid and removed the loose stones from the cracks. After weeks of hard work, a hole was finally dug out that could accommodate a small person. Anna crawled into the bottom of the hole alone. She suddenly found something lighting up her face. When she looked closely, it was a human skull. She was so excited that she took the crystal back to the top of the pyramid. The treasure Anna discovered was the upper part of a transparent crystal skull, and Michelle ordered the team to continue digging. Three months later, they found the lower half of the crystal skull 25 feet away. The two skulls together were exactly the same size as a human skull. This crystal skull is 17 centimeters long, 12 centimeters wide and 12 centimeters high, and weighs 5 kilograms. It is made of a large piece of complete crystal and is carved according to the shape of an adult woman's head. Its workmanship is very detailed. The nose bone is made of three crystals, and the two eye holes are two round crystals. Its lower jaw part can be connected to the skull part, or it can be disassembled. The whole composition is extremely delicate. As is customary, Michel presented the crystal skull to the leader of the local population. When Michelle's expedition was about to return to England, the local leader presented Michelle with a crystal skull in return for the expedition's help in providing them with medicine and food. Later, people called this skull "Michelle Hedges Crystal Skull". After Michelle's death, the skull has been kept by Anna. The mystery of life experience is unknown. The emergence of the crystal skull has touched the nerves of archaeologists around the world. They compared the crystal skull with a real human skull and found that except for the eye features, which were slightly outside the normal range of humans, all other parameters were indistinguishable from a real human skull... A Mayan old man told Michelle that this skull The crystal skull is at least 100,000 years old and was made to commemorate a great Mayan priest. However, not many people believed his statement. Scientists have tried to figure out exactly when it was made, but the physical properties of quartz crystal mean it will never be known. In addition, there is a tiny circular groove under each side of the skull's face, allowing the lower jaw to be connected to the skull and open and close freely like the lower jaw of a human skull. The exquisitely carved teeth and smooth cheekbones all demonstrate the maker's thorough understanding of human anatomy.

However, crystal is one of the hardest materials in the world, and it cannot be processed with copper, iron or stone tools. What tools did the Mayans use more than 1,000 years ago? In addition, although this kind of pure and transparent crystal is very hard, its texture is brittle and fragile. Scientists infer that if you want to make it thousands of years ago, you can only slowly use very fine sand and water to make it. It was polished from a large crystal stone, and the maker had to polish it 24 hours a day for 300 years to complete such a masterpiece. The ensuing puzzles. According to the legend, the crystal skull contains secret information about the origin and death of mankind, which can help mankind solve the mystery of life in the universe. If this is true, how will it tell people this? Where's the secret? Will it really speak one day? Of course scientists don't believe it. They believe that if the legend is true, then the crystal skull may be an information memory that stores secret information. In layman's terms, it is a hard drive. Scientists have done such experiments. They use crystals as information storage media, use lasers to write some information into it, and then use instructions to restore it after a period of time. The data inside is intact. Experiments have proven that if someone had written data into the crystal skull thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, it would still be preserved to this day. If the crystal skull is really an information storage, then how did the ancient Mayans store information thousands of years ago? Have they mastered science and technology that modern people have not yet mastered? How do people extract information? Scientists are at a loss what to do. However, the confusion that the ancient Mayans gave us goes beyond that. Scientists discovered that when a beam of light shines on the skull, the combination of prisms hidden in the base and hand-crafted lens sheets in the eye sockets can produce a series of optical changes. The dazzling light beam it emits has a hypnotic effect. Such magical power can cause hallucinations, auditory hallucinations and other phenomena. Mr. Frank Doland, a crystal expert who has studied crystal skulls for 6 years, said that when he was having sex with the crystal skull, he could hear a "very quiet and noticeable sound, like something coming from the crystal skull." The high-pitched bell makes a "sound", and images such as "mountains and temples" can also be seen on the crystal skull. Some people even found that their diseases were miraculously cured after touching the crystal skull. All kinds of miraculous phenomena are really incomprehensible. Modern optics emerged in the 17th century, and it was impossible for the ancient Mayans to use it. All the mysteries centered on the crystal skull are incredible, so some people who advocate mysticism simply attribute it to the work of extraterrestrials. Before they left, they gave the crystal skull as a gift to the Mayans. After that, the Mayans kept it in the pyramid until it was discovered by Anna. Scientists have no way of verifying this statement, but when science cannot provide a reasonable explanation for some mysterious phenomena, this kind of speculation becomes more acceptable. Maybe it is really the work of aliens. The true origin of the Michael Hedges Crystal Skull has been questioned. Various mysterious phenomena and mysteries have gathered together, making people's speculations about it become more and more bizarre. But in fact, this skull is not the first or the first. The only skull ever found. So far, about a dozen crystal skulls have been discovered in the world, 3 of which are kept in museums or research institutions, and the rest are in private collections. Moreover, not all of these dozen crystal skulls are Mayan relics. But among all these skulls, the Michael Hedges skull is undoubtedly the purest, most perfect and most magical one. Perhaps it is because this skull is so perfect that it has been jealous of humans, making people doubt its true origin. Especially when the crystal skull was unearthed, Anna herself had different opinions. In an interview in 1962, she said that the crystal skull was discovered by her father during an excavation of Mayan ruins in the late 1930s; in 1968, she wrote to an expert on crystal skulls and said that the skull was found in It was discovered in 1926; in 1982, when she answered the inquiry of scholar Nickel, it changed to 1924; in "The Mystery of the Crystal Skull" published in 1995, it was said that the crystal skull was discovered on Anna's 17th birthday of. All these have to make people doubt the true origin of Michelle Hedges' crystal skull. Everything may be a lie. Investigators also discovered that among the Indians, only the ancient Aztecs had the habit of carving skulls, while the ancient Mayans did not have such a habit, which only made the mystery shrouded in this skull even more The aura seems more and more false... Scientists believe that crystal is a magical thing that is easily fascinating. In addition, skulls are also easily associated with death and death. Using crystals to carve skulls is hypnotic. Its effect is doubled at once, so people who are easily suggestible will be hypnotized by it and produce auditory hallucinations and hallucinations. In January 2005, an incident shocked the archaeological community: the crystal skull of the ancient Mexican Aztecs in the British Museum was officially identified by scientists as a fake, and the archaeological community was in an uproar. At the same time, general questions were being raised about the Michelle Hedges skull. Although the two skulls come from different sources, their overall shapes are very similar, and both are modeled after a female skull. The difference is that the skull in the British Museum is a whole piece of crystal, while the skull of Michelle Hedges is The lower jaw is independent and removable, and the workmanship is more exquisite. However, the striking similarity between the two skulls makes it difficult to believe that they were made independently.

The crystal skull collected by the British Museum was first discovered at an ancient Aztec site in Mexico. Scientists discovered that the crystal skull was polished and cut with wheeled tools, a technology that did not exist in the American continent at the time. There is no doubt that people now have more reason to doubt the authenticity of Michelle Hedges' crystal skull. Some scientists prefer that it is not a relic of the Mayans, but a product of modern humans in the 19th century. However, even if this 100% pure and transparent crystal is not a cultural relic, its value is immeasurable. Who would use it to create a fake artifact? Today, Anna has refused to make any further scientific identification of the crystal skull. Therefore, scientists cannot yet judge whether it is a fake made by modern people. But people are still willing to believe that one day, modern technology will completely remove the mystery on the crystal skull, let the truth surface, and the facts will be revealed to the world.