Up-close & personal with the 42 Strange Elongated Skulls at the Paracas Museum

JOIN US FOR OUR 2024 PERU/ BOLIVIA TOUR HERE: In the 1920’s, Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello first discovered tombs in Paracas, Peru filled with skeletons that possessed some of the largest elongated skulls found on earth. Since then, many more elongated skulls from this region have been discovered which are believed to date from between 2,000 - 3,000 years ago. Now the skeptics always immediately cry that all of these are just the result of cradle head boarding. Some of them are, but many are not. Here’s what appears to be going on… there are two different types of skulls found amongst the Paracas skulls - there are the cradle boarded skulls that are elongated simply due to cranial deformation or head boarding. On these type of skulls, except for the skull elongation, everything looks similar to our skulls of today (eye sockets, jaw size, suture lines, the foramen magnum, etc) But then there are the skulls we call natural elongated skulls, th