Ancient Peruvian skull with metal implant baffles scientists
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If an alien civilization far more advanced than anything on Earth existed thousands of years ago, would they have embedded a piece of metal inside someone’s skull? That is, at least, what this looks like.
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A 2000-year-old elongated Peruvian skull with a surgical metal
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Ancient Peruvians gave themselves elongated skulls as a mark of
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An ancient Peruvian skull with an implant has experts divided
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Photofabrication about the Skull Discovered in the US
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Mysterious Skull Implanted With Strange Metallic Object Divides
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Amazing Things We've Learned From 800 Ancient Skull Surgeries
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Photofabrication about the Skull Discovered in the US
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