Crystals and crystals skulls have been associated by numerous ‘fringe’ writers with the Atlantis mystery. Edgar Cayce started the ball rolling with his claim that the Atlanteans used crystals as a power source and weaponry. It must be pointed out that Plato never mentioned crystals in relation to Atlantis – a strange omission if they played such an important part in Atlantean technology.

This twaddle has been compounded by F. A. Mitchell-Hedges the alleged discoverer of the most perfect of the crystal skulls, when he wrote a couple of articles identifying Central America with Atlantis. His daughter, Anna Mitchell-Hedges, the present owner of the skull, has gone further and claims that the skull has an extraterrestrial origin and was brought to Atlantis and then to its place of eventual discovery in Belize. A recent study of the Mitchell-Hedges skull indicate that it was manufactured using high-speed rotary equipment developed in the 19th century for jewellers.

Another sophisticated crystal skull, named ‘Compassion’ has recently surfaced with an  apparently African origin. Philip Coppens has written an article on its possible implication^(d). A website^(e) dedicated to exploiting this skull has all the hallmarks of New Age nonsense starting with the name of the site itself – Atlanteanskull.com.

^(a) http://www.crystalinks.com/atlanteancrystals.html

^(b) http://www.think-aboutit.com/atlantis/living_crystals_of_atlantis.htm

^(c) http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/mitchell_hedges/index.html

^(d) http://www.philipcoppens.com/compassion.html

^(e) http://www.atlanteanskull.com/