All this talk about diamonds got me thinking.

Posted by Fall Guy from pool0598.cvx7-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net on May 01, 2001 at 12:27:21:

What a cool artifact that would be! Too bad that it probably lacks
the religious significance of the objects that Indy usually hunts.
Still, pretty interesting (Maybe it's just a crock...) ;)

I found this somewhere on the net...

CRYSTAL SKULL FROM ATLANTIS

Without doubt the most famous and enigmatic ancient crystal is the
skull, discovered in 1927 by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges atop a ruined temple
at the ancient Mayan city of Lubaantum, in British Honduras, now
Belize.

The skull was made from a single block of clear quartz, 5 inches high,
7 inches long and 5 inches wide. It is about the size of a small human
cranium, with near perfect detail. In 1970, art restorer Frank Dorland
was given permission to submit the skull to tests at the Hewlitt-
Packard Laboratories. Revealed were many anomalies.

The skull had been carved with total disregard to the natural crystal
axis, a process unheard-of in modern crystallography. No metal tools
were used. Dorland was unable to find any tell-tale scratch marks.
Indeed, most metals would have been ineffectual. A modern penknife
cannot mark it. From tiny patterns near the carved surfaces, Dorland
determined it was first chiseled into rough form, probably using
diamonds. The finer shaping, grinding and polishing, Dorland believes,
was done with innumerable applications of water and silicon-crystal
sand. If true, it would have taken 300 years of continuous labor. We
must accept this almost unimaginable feat, or admit to the use of some
form of lost technology.

Modern science is stumped to explain the skill and knowledge
incorporated. As Garvin summarized: It is virtually impossible today,
in the time when men have climbed mountains on the moon, to duplicate
this achievement...It would not be a question of skill, patience and
time. It would simply be impossible. As one crystallographer from
Hewlitt-Packard said, The damned thin

Follow Ups:

Hey, Fall Guy... Thefumegator 22:03:45 5/01/2001 (1)
- Try this: Fall Guy 22:23:25 5/01/2001 (0)
The only downside of that is... graml 14:35:24 5/01/2001 (5)
- He did? Nobody told me... Fall Guy 14:46:03 5/01/2001 (4)
  - I think they're making that Michael Crichton book into a movie... bud-arc 15:14:31 5/01/2001 (3)
    - Unrealistic? No freaking way! Fall Guy 15:23:15 5/01/2001 (2)
      - Hey, I'm only speaking on behalf of the majority of Indyfans... bud-arc 15:26:55 5/01/2001 (1)
        
        Since when? Fall Guy 15:38:25 5/01/2001 (0)
I blame my Mac for the rest getting cut off: The last sentence said: Fall Guy 12:29:47 5/01/2001 (14)
- There was a computer game about that... bud-arc 12:31:50 5/01/2001 (13)
  - Really? Fall Guy 12:39:51 5/01/2001 (10)
    - Jeef is in Tomb Raider? bud-arc 12:42:27 5/01/2001 (9)
      - Yeah Jeef's in Tomb Raider, he gets to fondle Angelina Jolie's er... guns. :P (nm) Brett (Maverick) Lambert 14:48:09 5/01/2001 (0)
      - He's the butler! Fall Guy 12:48:00 5/01/2001 (7)
        
        Oh! Jeeves! bud-arc 12:49:57 5/01/2001 (6)
        
        I call him Jeef for obvious reasons. Fall Guy 12:53:01 5/01/2001 (5)
        
        He's old and crotchety? bud-arc 12:57:13 5/01/2001 (4)
        
        Not our Indiana! Fall Guy 13:01:29 5/01/2001 (3)
        
        I mean, if he were still alive today! bud-arc 13:05:44 5/01/2001 (2)
        
        He got buried on a croft? Fall Guy 13:56:07 5/01/2001 (1)
        
        Freeze! Pun Police! Yer under arrest! Assault with a deadly wea-pun! (nm) Indiana Banzai 14:57:02 5/01/2001 (0)
  - Here's a link... bud-arc 12:34:01 5/01/2001 (1)
    - Dammit, bud-arc! Curiosity killed the cat! Fall Guy 12:46:45 5/01/2001 (0)

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: <b>What a cool artifact that would be! Too bad that it probably lacks 
: the religious significance of the objects that Indy usually hunts. 
: Still, pretty interesting (Maybe it's just a crock...) ;) </b>

: I found this somewhere on the net...

: CRYSTAL SKULL FROM ATLANTIS

: Without doubt the most famous and enigmatic ancient crystal is the 
: skull, discovered in 1927 by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges atop a ruined temple 
: at the ancient Mayan city of Lubaantum, in British Honduras, now
: Belize.
:  
: The skull was made from a single block of clear quartz, 5 inches high, 
: 7 inches long and 5 inches wide. It is about the size of a small human 
: cranium, with near perfect detail. In 1970, art restorer Frank Dorland 
: was given permission to submit the skull to tests at the Hewlitt-
: Packard Laboratories. Revealed were many anomalies.
:  
: The skull had been carved with total disregard to the natural crystal 
: axis, a process unheard-of in modern crystallography. No metal tools 
: were used. Dorland was unable to find any tell-tale scratch marks. 
: Indeed, most metals would have been ineffectual. A modern penknife 
: cannot mark it. From tiny patterns near the carved surfaces, Dorland 
: determined it was first chiseled into rough form, probably using 
: diamonds. The finer shaping, grinding and polishing, Dorland believes, 
: was done with innumerable applications of water and silicon-crystal 
: sand. If true, it would have taken 300 years of continuous labor. We 
: must accept this almost unimaginable feat, or admit to the use of some 
: form of lost technology.
:  
: Modern science is stumped to explain the skill and knowledge 
: incorporated. As Garvin summarized: It is virtually impossible today, 
: in the time when men have climbed mountains on the moon, to duplicate 
: this achievement...It would not be a question of skill, patience and 
: time. It would simply be impossible. As one crystallographer from 
: Hewlitt-Packard said, The damned thin

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