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A visitor admires the Skull of Doom
An intriguing crystal skull said to have inspired the latest Indiana Jones film went on display in Edinburgh yesterday.
The Mitchell-Hedges skull is thought to be 3,600 years old. It has been brought to Edinburgh as part of the Histories and Mysteries conference taking place at The Hub.
“We’re not saying to anyone what the skull is or should be,” says event organiser Cris Winter, “we just want people to have a look at it and make up their own minds.”
The quartz skull is claimed to have been discovered by “the real Indiana Jones” “Mike” Mitchell-Hedges on a trip to Belize in the early 1900s.
Others believe Mitchell-Hedges bought the skull from an antiques dealer in New York or that the skull was purchased at auction in 1943.
It was last valued in the 1970s at 500,000 US dollars. A more recent valuation by the Smithsonian Institute has been kept secret so its value remains a mystery, much like the skull itself.
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