From Mars to the Maya Scientists at Hewlett-Packard's crystal lab had tested thousands of specimens, but they'd never seen ...

But at 61, his mainstream comedy career has taken a backseat to his newest passions: selling vodka in glass skull bottles and talking about his unwavering belief in extraterrestrials and ghosts.

Two well-known crystal skulls, held in the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, did not come from ancient Mexico as was once thought. Modern scientific techniques suggest ...

The best known crystal skull. The most famous crystal skulls are those approximately life-sized, and of those, the one Indiana Jones-like adventurer F.A. Mitchell-Hedges is said to have found in a ...

A major player in the skull game, according to Walsh, was Frederick Arthur Mitchell-Hedges, an English stockbroker-turned-adventurer who, in 1943, began displaying a crystal carving that he called ...

CORRECTION: This story was updated on March 14, 2013, to indicate that the goblet pictured is pre-Columbian, not Aztec. Humans seem to have a predilection for fake quartz-crystal Aztec skulls ...

Lore behind Mayan crystal skulls once influenced collectors at world-class museums. Modern research, though, proves they can't be pre-Columbian. Were they really carved by jewelers in Idar ...

indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull 2.5 stars, out 4 Plot: The whip-wielding archaeologist travels to South America to rescue an old pal and, hopefully, beat the Russians to a ...