People with an unusual skull shape have been known for a long time. Hippocrates and Aristotle wrote about them. Despite this, all knowledge about the "long-headed" for a long time was considered mythological, fictional.
But two centuries ago, the topic became relevant again, as archaeologists began to come across abundant evidence. It is generally accepted that the birthplace of macrocephalics is the territory of modern Peru, but this is fundamentally wrong.
Mummies of people with elongated skulls are found all over the globe, far from the American continent - in Austria, the Crimea, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Pacific islands, Syria, China and Egypt. The age of the finds, determined by historians and archaeologists, is very different: here, as they say, who is good for what. Someone points to hundreds of years, while someone takes the bar of 13 millennia.
A very important question is the origin of macrocephals. In its decision, the opinions of specialists differ in the most cardinal way. Most scientists are inclined to the version that in ancient times a special culture spread on Earth, in which a long head was considered a sign of noble origin, the highest priestly caste ("the seal of God"), beauty or health. Supporters of another version believe that people with long skulls, marked with the seal of evil, were feared and not touched by enemies.
The third, more exotic and alternative, is an imitation of aliens who flew to Earth to teach people knowledge (the theory of paleocontact). Based on three versions, we can conclude: the parents deliberately deformed the skulls of babies with plates to ensure their comfortable future, to emphasize their noble origin or to protect them from death.
Among the most daring assumptions is the fourth version. It is about the fact that long-headed people were already born with this genetic trait and were representatives of a separate human race with superpowers, but long extinct. Its adherents are ready to swear that there are skulls of babies, including intrauterine ones, whose shape was initially elongated, and there are no signs of artificial squeezing on them.
The supporter of this hypothesis is Brian Forster, a researcher and traveler, a participant in television shows and the author of more than 23 books. Not so long ago (in January 2017), he presented the public with convincing evidence - an elongated skull of an infant who died about 2800 years ago at the age of no more than three months. The mummy was found in the Paracas Desert, on the southern coast of Peru.
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According to Forster, the child's head did not undergo special deformation and had a special shape by nature, since it would take at least six months for a stable effect in artificial macrocephaly.
According to the researcher, the skulls from Paracas are different from ordinary human skulls. Their volume is 25% larger and their weight is 60% larger. The results of the genetic analysis revealed "mitochondrial DNA with an unknown mutation that none of humans, primates or animals has."
Naturally, Forster's hypothesis and the results of his analyzes were immediately tried to refute by official scientists. Were they some weighty reason to hide the historical truth or all this evidence is just another invention of an adventurer and showman - decide for yourself.
Elena Muravyova for neveroyatno.info