On Friday 23rd May, The Wall Street Journal published an article about the crystal skull, re-establishing the debate on the authenticity of the artifact.
Little susprise that the publicity surrounding the skulls have been incited by Indy's latest blockbuster release. Brought out from storage, the lucid artifact was displayed by the Quai Branly Museum to coincide with the launch of the film "Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
However, little is known about its origins. The legend of the skull is that 13 crystal skulls, dating from the Aztec period more than 500 years ago, must be reunited by 2012 to prevent the end of the world. Sounds just about apt for a blockbuster movie script, but a little phoney for it to be considered as a historic fact. This sparks the argument of why the museum would promote an item it knows very little about. Who cares? "Fakes have their own fans!" ...the responsive psyche of awed visitors swarming around the skull.
Tentative as to whether this reaction displays a trend of an easily-mesmerised society, or whether integrity has lost its defination along with facts about the historic background of the crystal skull...
Still, who cares?
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