Honeymoon in Belize DAY FIVE: Nim Li Punit - PART II

After walking through the museum of Stelae, we walked up a stone pathway to the actual ruins.

Some people may have heard of the Mitchell Hedges, and the controversial discovery of one of the crystal skulls at Labaantun (sometimes called "The Skull of Doom"). It was allegedly discovered in 1924 by Anna Le Guillon Mitchell-Hedges, adopted daughter of British adventurer and popularist author F.A. Mitchell-Hedges.

Although the next video in this series will take us to Labaantun, where that skull was supposedly found, you will begin to notice here at the ruins Nim Li Punit that most of what is left of the temples are only the foundations or what might look like stairs. When we got there we discovered that this was due to the fact that in 1924adventurer Mitchel Hedges had used dynamite of blow the tops off the temples, just to get inside them.

These ruins are beautiful and walking around with this new found knowledge you cant help but be disgusted by the disrespect shown to this historically magnificent site. These ruins were desecrated by Mitchel Hedges, but all most people associate with his name is the crystal skull he allegedly discovering.

NOTE: Mitchel Hedges published no mention of the skull until the late 1940s, not long after a crystal skull was auctioned off by Sydney Burney at Sotheby's in 1943. Mitchell-Hedges's crystal skull is actually the one from Sotheby's as a skull with identical measurements was described in 1936, and its owner was Sydney Burney. [wikipedia]

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