Crystal Skulls

"The priest pulls out another skull, crystal, and holds it high. The relic! I hear its hum in my own skull. Faint, but familiar!"

- Giovanni Borgia, first sighting one of the Crystal Skulls.

The Crystal Skulls are Pieces of Eden created by Those Who Came Before. They were scattered throughout Central America,and South America, mainly coming into the possession of Aztec,Maya and Inca Civilizations.

In 1520, one Skull was located by Giovanni Borgia, an Assassin who had been sent to become a member of Hernán Cortés' crew in order to search for Pieces of Eden. He managed to intercept one from an Aztec priest in Tenochtitlan, where it was being used as part of a human sacrifice ritual. Upon returning to Europe, he took it to Bombastus, who was an expert in studying the Pieces of Eden.

After having studied the skull over the years, an unknown Chinese man used the skull's communicative powers to contact and warn Giovanni in 1542.

Trivia

 * Though not named explicitly, several of the Skulls presumably came into possession of Abstergo, as Alan Rikkin notes in an email to Warren Vidic that the Mitchell-Hedges Communicators worked. Hence, it is assumed that the power of the Crystall Skulls had been used as a form of communication that modern-day Assassins would be unable to trace.


 * Myths about the Crystal Skulls containing vast amounts of knowledge may be explained by the fact that they are Pieces of Eden.
 * Interestingly, a Chinese man seems to have possession of another Skull in 1542. In Assassin's Creed, one of the messages on Desmond's wall (left by Subject 16) refers to Emperor Jianjing, a Chinese emperor who sought mysterious relics, and was nearly assassinated in 1542. The same message also refers to Quetzlcoatl, an Aztec god. At least one Skull was kept by Aztecs, and one kept by a Chinese man in the time of Jianjing. The message probably refers to the Skulls in that sense.