My original purpose for going to Belize was to visit Lubantuum, the pyramid where Helen Mitchell-Hedges crawled deep inside and allegedly found a crystal skull in 1924 when she was 16 years old.
The Lubantuum pyramid lies in ruin, midway between Dangriga and Punta Gorda, reachable only by negotiating a quarter mile cow path that leads up from a dirt road, it is being slowly restored, but much work still needs to be done.
Her father was exploring British Honduras (now Belize) looking for evidence of the legendary Atlantis. Her account of the discovery states that she was the only one small enough to climb into the small entrance of the pyramid where the skull was found.
Thirteen of the crystal skulls have been found in parts of Central America, Mexico, and South America. The skulls are believed to be between 5,000 and 36,000 years old and many people claim they hold healing and magical properties, however no one really knows where they came from or how they were made.
The skulls have been found near ancient Mayan and Aztec ruins, with some evidence linking them to ancient civilizations of Peru.
The Mitchell-Hedges skull is the most famous as it resembles a human skull and remarkably, has a removable jaw bone.
It is flawless in it's design, being made of highly polished crystal, it is so perfect that the most advanced sculptures and engineers of the day have no idea how it could have been made without it either shattering or falling apart during construction.
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