Oh, you mean the two artifacts that were both proven in 1999 to be, in fact two Champion spark plugs circa 1920?

:lmao:

First of all stonehenge was never associated with the druids until the modern era, second I would hardly consider moving some boulders an enigma - hack away in a quarry until you have a big block, grab a couple dozen men, beasts of burden etc, put some kind of roller under large block, pull, pull some more, more pulling, keep pulling, eventually get there, use basic knowledge of force to pull stone upright. Astronomical precision? People celebrated the solstaces because they marked the changing of the seasons, important dates if you rely completely on subsistence farming, I'm sure yo can image someone figuring out a way to mark that date by placing stones on the ground that match the sun, hell I remember marking shadows on the ground with chalk when I was 4.

Someone builds tent out of light materials. Someone puts tent over fire. You can see where this is going, I've never even heard of this before and I can come up with an explanation.

I'm highly dubious that it was identical to a spark plug, but I'm certainly aware that "batteries" (it's never been shown that they were actually used for anything) taking advantage of electrolysis exist, but does that mean sticking a couple of wires into a lemon is something that requires advance thought? It's not hard to see where discoveries that apparently mimic modern inventions come from.

Ha! I knew about the skulls before the Indiana Jones film!

OOPArts are always fun to read about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact

Because there's zero evidence to suggest it has ever happened, and advanced technology leaves evidence.

Clarke's Three Laws of prediction:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The Mayans had a technology we do not understand, so immediately we assume it must be something magical or esoteric.
The skulls are not unique, there are other man made creations around the world that we can not explain:
Stonehenge, the Pyramids, the Nazca Lines...

I've always assumed the crystal skulls were so meticulously polished from thousands of years of being handled by Mayan priests.
Note that the Mayans saw the human skull not as a symbol of death, but rather as a symbol of consciousness and the abode of the spirit in our bodies.

This is my favourite

Eltanin Antenna: Actually a sponge

Maybe the glass has been dated that long but could have been made recently. Just the glass would be 1000s of years old you can't really tell how long ago it was built. What was dated? The glass or the skull being made?

Why not just reunite all the skulls?

See what kind of crap goes down once there all together.

I think they plan on doing this, December 21st 2012

There was a pretty funny Gamesradar feature a while back where they tried to imagine what today's gaming technology will be seen as by the people of the future, all I can remember is the wiimote cover was described as a 'primitive form of birth control' and that the NGP was thought to be a digital picture frame but the early homosapiens were too primitive to have used that so it was decided to be a pointless sculpture
Much like the way everyone from the past is seen as an uneducated fool

Thats just hippie new age nonsense.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/coso.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_artifact

http://paranormal.about.com/od/ancientanomalies/ig/Most-Puzzling-Ancient-Artifact/The-Coso-Artifact.htm

Apparently, the geologist that found the artifact, has never been found to further explain his "discovery".

Yeah, I'm sticking with the Model "T" and Model "A" Champion Spark Plug.

There will be a bunch of skulls made by european con-artists in a room.

Just imagine how much we could blow Aristotle's [censored] mind by showing him that Atoms do in fact exist. Or how some ancient peoples would react to experiencing an enviroment with no medium occupying empty space. (a vacuum) Or heck, how'd they would react to nuclear weaponry. We could blow the minds of the ancient peoples with our current technology.

Billy Zane saves us with the fourth skull. What else do you expect?

Mayans, making people think their brains out since the discovery of the Crystal Skulls.

Instead of pyramids and statues they went with skulls.

Still makes you wonder though......................

I'll be honest, it was all I could do to not let a tear of happiness trickle down my face when I saw all the skeptics in this thread. Pure joy.

The Crystals Skulls are a hoax. Totally and thoroughly a hoax.

I remember these being talked about on "ancient aliens", after seeing them in that atrocious movie. Of course, being the show that it was, they were discussing the likelihood that these skulls are of alien creation, made for a specific purpose. Is this true? That is up in the air. Still was a cool topic of discussion for anyone who would like to see it. I am sure it is on youtube somewhere. No, bye the way. I am not an alien nut. Nor am I even really an alien believer. Apparently these things can hold tremendous amount of data.

There skulls, made by con-artists out of quartz from places like brazil. Even if you could store data in quartz, there isn't anyone who could have done it in the 19th century.

The Mayans did not, they however, did have a numerical system based on twenty, which made it far easier to calculate more prescisely. ( Our metric system is based on ten, hexidecimal on sixteen, for example). If you were to compare the crystal skulls to Mayan works of art, found in tombs of high ranking elite, you would see the skulls are clearly an anachronism. The skulls are most certainly not unique, they were made in the nineteenth century by entreprenuers seeking to fleece the gullible. Mayans also saw the afterlife as one long tortours hell, an underworld which they named Xibalba. As for the Nazca lines, Smithsonian and National Geographic reported recent research designated them as both irrigation and religious devices.

Hooey.

Thats possible. This is really interesting, specially since they pop up in such different areas and are noted by a few different civilization, I think it said?



how do you know? They were dated right?

No, they were not carbon dated. Namely because their made of silicon dioxide, better known as quartz. Their also known fakes. All evidence points to them being 19th century forgeries. Including the tool marks that were discovered through our modern anolytic methods.

But what a great hoax eh?

Now the question is how did they do it?