The existence of giants on earth. Ancient civilizations
Giants of antiquity - fiction or reality? Here's some information that recently appeared on the Internet: The Smithsonian Institution admitted that it destroyed thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900s.
The US Supreme Court has ordered the Smithsonian to release classified documents dating back to the early 1900s, showing that the organization took part in a major historical cover-up of evidence showing that tens of thousands of gigantic human remains were found across America, and destroyed on the orders of senior officials for defending the dominant chronology of human evolution that existed at that time.
Suspicions emanating from the American Institute of Alternative Archeology (AIAA) that the Smithsonian Institution destroyed thousands of giant human remains were met with hostility by the organization, which responded by suing the AIAA for defamation and attempting to damage the reputation of the 168-year-old institution.
According to AIAA spokesman James Charward, new details emerged during the trial when a number of Smithsonian insiders acknowledged the existence of documents that allegedly prove the destruction of tens of thousands of human skeletons ranging in size from 6 to 12 feet tall (1.8-3.65 m). ;), the existence of which traditional archeology, for various reasons, does not want to acknowledge.
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But first, let's define this topic: yes, you are right, the photos in the post are a collage and photoshop.
The turning point in the case was the demonstration of a 1.3 meter long human femur as proof of the existence of such gigantic human bones. This evidence blew a hole in the defense of the Institute's lawyers, since the bone was stolen from the organization by a senior curator in the mid-1930s, who kept it his entire life and wrote a written confession on his deathbed about the Smithsonian's cover-up operations.
“It’s terrible that they do this to people,” he writes in his letter. “We are hiding the truth about the ancestors of humanity, about the giants who inhabited the earth, which are mentioned in the Bible, as well as other ancient texts.”
The US Supreme Court ordered the institute to release classified information about everything related to the “destruction of evidence relating to pre-European culture,” as well as items “associated with larger-than-usual human skeletons.”
“The publication of these documents will help archaeologists and historians reconsider current theories about human evolution and help us better understand pre-European culture in the Americas and the rest of the world,” says AIAA Director Hans Guttenberg.
The release of the documents is scheduled for 2015, and all this will be coordinated by an independent scientific organization to ensure the political neutrality of the operation.
Historical chronicles of the 19th century often report the discovery of skeletons of abnormally tall people in different parts of the globe.
In 1821, in the US state of Tennessee, the ruins of an ancient stone wall were found, and under it were two human skeletons 215 centimeters tall. In Wisconsin, during the construction of a granary in 1879, huge vertebrae and skull bones of “incredible thickness and size” were found, according to a newspaper article.
In 1883, several burial mounds were discovered in Utah containing the burials of very tall people - 195 centimeters, which is at least 30 centimeters higher than the average height of Aboriginal Indians. The latter did not make these burials and could not provide any information about them. In 1885, in Gasterville (Pennsylvania), a stone crypt was discovered in a large burial mound, in which there was a skeleton 215 centimeters high. Primitive images of people, birds and animals were carved on the walls of the crypt.
In 1899, miners in the Ruhr region of Germany discovered the fossilized skeletons of people ranging from 210 to 240 centimeters tall.
In 1890, in Egypt, archaeologists found a stone sarcophagus with a clay coffin inside, which contained the mummies of a two-meter red-haired woman and a baby. The facial features and build of the mummies were sharply different from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of a man and a woman with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovelock (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The height of the mummified woman during life was two meters, and the man was about three meters.
Australian finds
In 1930, near Basarst in Australia, prospectors mining jasper often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. Anthropologists called the race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, Meganthropus. The height of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Meganthropus is similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were discovered in China. Judging by the found fragments of jaws and many teeth, the height of the Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and their weight was 400 kilograms. Near Basarst, in the river sediments there were stone artifacts of enormous weight and size - clubs, plows , chisels, knives and axes. Modern Homo sapiens would hardly be able to work with tools weighing from 4 to 9 kilograms.
An anthropological expedition that specifically explored this area in 1985 for the presence of remains of Meganthropus, carried out excavations at a depth of up to three meters from the surface of the earth. Australian researchers found, among other things, a fossilized molar tooth 67 millimeters high and 42 millimeters wide. The owner of the tooth had to be at least 7.5 meters tall and weigh 370 kilograms! Hydrocarbon analysis determined the age of the finds to be nine million years.
In 1971, in Queensland, farmer Stephen Walker, while plowing his field, came across a large fragment of a jaw with teeth five centimeters high. In 1979, in Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains, local residents found a huge stone sticking out above the surface of a stream, on which could be seen the imprint of part of a huge foot with five toes. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 centimeters long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man six meters tall
Near Malgoa, three huge footprints were found, 60 centimeters long and 17 centimeters wide. The giant's stride length was measured at 130 centimeters. The footprints were preserved in fossilized lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Macleay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 centimeters long and the width of the foot is 25 centimeters. Obviously, the Aborigines of Australia were not the first inhabitants of the continent. Interestingly, their folklore contains legends about giant people who once lived in these territories.
Other evidence of giants
In one of the old books entitled History and Antiquity, now kept in the library of Oxford University, there is an account of the discovery of a gigantic skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried four yards deep in the ground and is in full military garb. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters) long, and the "big man's" teeth measure 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)."
In 1877, near Ewreka, Nevada, prospectors were panning for gold in a deserted hilly area. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out over the cliff ledge. People climbed the rock and were surprised to find human bones of the foot and lower leg along with the kneecap. The bone was immured in the rock, and the miners used picks to free it from the rock. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers brought it to Evreka. The stone in which the rest of the leg was embedded was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which indicated their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of the knee joint and completely preserved bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and concluded that the leg undoubtedly belonged to a person. But the most intriguing aspect of the find was the size of the leg - 97 centimeters from knee to foot. The owner of this limb during his lifetime had a height of 3 meters 60 centimeters. Even more mysterious was the age of the quartzite in which the fossil was found - 185 million years, the era of dinosaurs. Local newspapers vied with each other to report the sensation. One of the museums sent researchers to the site in hopes of finding the remaining parts of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing more was discovered.
In 1936, German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shores of Lake Elizi in Central Africa. The 12 men buried in the mass grave had heights from 350 to 375 centimeters during their lifetime. It is curious that their skulls had sloping chins and two rows of upper and lower teeth.
There is evidence that during the Second World War in Poland, during the burial of those executed, a fossilized skull 55 centimeters high was found, that is, almost three times larger than that of a modern adult. The giant to whom the skull belonged had very proportional features and a height of at least 3.5 meters
Giant Skulls
Ivan T. Sanderson, a famous zoologist and frequent guest on the popular American show “Tonight” in the 60s, once shared with the public an interesting story about a letter he received from a certain Alan McShir. The author of the letter in 1950 worked as a bulldozer operator on the construction of a road in Alaska. He reported that workers discovered two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the burial mounds. The height of the skulls reached 58 cm and the width 30 centimeters. The ancient giants had a double row of teeth and disproportionately flat heads. Each skull had a neat round hole in the upper part. It should be noted that the custom of deforming the skulls of infants in order to force their heads to acquire an elongated shape as they grew, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger in size than those of modern humans. The length of the shin bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.
In South Africa, in diamond mining in 1950, a fragment of a huge skull 45 centimeters high was discovered. Above the brow ridges were two strange protrusions that resembled small horns. Anthropologists who came into possession of the find determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.
There is not entirely reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and on the islands of Oceania.
Almost all nations have legends about Giants who lived in ancient times on the territory of one country or another. Armenia is no exception, but unlike other places, the stories here cannot be so easily dismissed. And, although not all anthropologists and archaeologists believe that we are talking about an entire race of giants, and not about isolated tall specimens, attempts do not stop to discover the last refuges of our distant ancestors or traces of their economic activities.
Thus, during a scientific and practical expedition that took place in 2011, a number of evidence was collected, from which it followed that fairly large people, 2 or more meters tall, inhabited some regions of Armenia.
Fragments of a skeleton found in a crypt in the village of Khot.
Artsrun Hovsepyan, director of the Goshavank historical complex, said that in 1996, when laying a road through the hills, bones were found so large that when they were applied to oneself, they reached the level of the throat. Komitas Aleksanyan, a resident of the village of Ava, says that local residents found skulls and leg bones of very large sizes, almost the size of a person. According to him: “Once it happened last fall (2010) and another 2 years ago (2009), on the territory of our village, where the grave of St. Barbara is located.”
Ruben Mnatsakanyan, an independent researcher, mentioned in an interview for the “City of Giants” program (Culture TV channel) that he discovered bones that were very large, the length of the entire skeleton was approximately 4 m 10 cm. “I carried the skull in my hands and could see no closer than 2 meters in front of you. Such was its size. The shin was higher than my lower back, it was about 1 m 15 cm. This bone was also not a light one.” In 1984, construction of a new plant was underway near the city of Sisian. Tractors were digging the foundation. Suddenly one of them, throwing away a layer of earth, stopped. An ancient burial opened before the observers, where the remains of a very large man lay. The burial in which the second giant lay was piled high with huge stones. The skeleton was covered with earth up to the middle of the ribs, there was a sword along the body, with both hands he held its hilt, which was made of bone. Before this, I thought that giants lived in ancient times. Perhaps I would not have paid attention to it, but the sword was made of metal, because along the entire body there was a layer of rust left over from the iron.
Pavel Avetisyan, director of the Institute of Archeology, claims that on the territory of Gyumri, in the area of the Black Fortress, huge skulls and even entire skeletons of the ancient period were discovered, which were shown to him. “I was just taken aback, because probably the thumb of such a person would be thicker than my hand. I myself participated in excavations and often came across the remains of people who were much taller than me. Of course, I can’t tell you their height exactly, but it’s more than 2 meters. Because the tibia or hip bone that was discovered, when I put it on my leg, was much longer.”
Human bone found at excavations in Armenia. Still from the film "City of Giants". Although the height of a person, according to the authors’ assumption, reached 2 meters, it still did not reach the “giant”
Movses Khorenatsi (a representative of Armenian feudal historiography, lived in the 5th and early 6th centuries) wrote that the cities of giants were also located in the gorge of the Vorotan River. This is the Syunik region, located in the southeast of Armenia. Here in the mountain village of Khot in 1968 a monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War was built. When the top of the mound was leveled, ancient tombs with unusual remains were discovered. The already mentioned Vazgen Gevorgyan: “The entire population of the village of Khot talks about the skeletons of giants found there. In particular, Razmik Arakelyan many years ago, during excavation work, personally saw the graves of two giants. The village headman, to whom his father showed the exact place, also spoke about this. Everyone who saw it was very surprised at how huge people once lived here. Apparently there was their cemetery there, and this place needs to be explored.”
In the neighboring village of Tandzatap there are also witnesses who spoke of giant bones - the tibia reached to the waist of the tallest of them. This happened in 1986, when they were making terraces for fruit trees. Tractors dug up the mountainside many meters deep. Thanks to this, very ancient layers were accessible. The tractor bucket demolished the bottom slab, and then the burial itself was revealed, from which the bone of a real giant was extracted. Mikhail Ambartsumyan, at that time personally supervised the work.
Mikhail Ambartsumyan, former village head: “I saw that a small hole had opened, lined with flat stones on the sides. There I found a leg bone: from the knee to the foot, about 1.20 cm long, I even called the driver, showed him, and he is a tall guy. We tried to see what else was in this hole, but it was too deep, and it was already dark, we couldn’t see. They left it that way. Then in the same hole I found a karas, that is, a huge jug, but, unfortunately, when I tried to pull it out, it broke. The height of the crucian carp reached about 2 meters.”
Sometimes there are also finds of mammoth skulls, which, due to their structure, are mistaken by many for “one-eyed skulls.” Seda Hakobyan, a resident of Yeghvard, mentioned that she once decided to break the concrete floor on the balcony, under the column, in order to fill it with concrete again and install a beam. When the concrete was broken, they found a flat stone under it, and under the stone a hole was discovered. “And in the hole they found a skull, one eyed, the eye was on the forehead, a mouth, and a small hole from the nose, very small. And there were also legs, very long, both together probably about 3 meters. From the bottom to the waist, the length reached 3 m. They took it out of the hole. My husband was advised to take the find to the museum. He took the skull, I don’t know whether he took the rest or not.” This suggests that the bones of mammoths or other animals could be confused with human bones.
There is also a scandal associated with the quoted film “City of Giants”, so a leading researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Ph.D. Maria Borisovna Mednikova sent an open letter to the Kultura TV channel and stated that her words were distorted in the film because she is opposed to the existence of a “race of giants.” As a result, the program began to be broadcast without her interview. In general, M.B. Mednikova expressed very interesting thoughts, noting that the so-called “high-mountain type” of a person has always been “head and shoulders above” his fellows. Both the Caucasus and the territory of Armenia are one of the centers of tallness, so the appearance here of people taller than the average highlander of that time is quite normal.
Findings of human skeletons significantly exceeding the size that modern science can imagine does not mean that it was an entire race; it may be more correct to talk about only some of its representatives, who, for their growth, were endowed with divine properties during life, and were buried in special stone burial grounds with greater honors than their compatriots who were not touched by all the genetic advantages of the “high mountain type”?
By the way, I can explain the history of this photo, for example:
At first, the scandalous photo was circulated without any details. They appeared only in 2007 in the Indian magazine Hindu Voice.
Where the correspondent reported that the skeleton of an 18-meter-tall giant was discovered in northern India during excavations organized by the National Geographic Society, its Indian branch and with the support of the Indian Army.
The publication emphasized that clay tablets with inscriptions were found along with the skeleton. And from them it followed that the giant belonged to a race of superhumans who were mentioned in the Mahabharata - the Indian epic of 200 BC.
The editor of the magazine - one P. Deivamuthu - then apologized to the National Geographic Society by sending a letter. He allegedly fell for facts obtained from sources that, as it has now become obvious, were not trustworthy.
But the thirst for knowledge could no longer be quenched. Information about the “Indian find” emerged from all the cracks of the Internet with renewed vigor. And, of course, along with a photo of the giant.
In short, the public suspects some kind of conspiracy. And she's right. There really was a conspiracy. It was organized back in 2002.
There are plenty of skeletons like this
As the investigation showed, the photo of the “Indian skeleton” was made by an artistic Photoshop specialist from Canada, a certain IronKite. But not for the sake of malice, but as a form of participation in the annual competition called “Archaeological Anomalies 2”. Where the author was awarded third place (which works were awarded the first and second prizes is not possible to determine now - access to the competition website is closed). Participants were asked to fabricate some amazing archaeological find. Which some did very talentedly. And it fell on fertile soil - many have no doubt that giants once lived on Earth.
Also - no less tall than an Indian
Graves of giants are also found underwater
IronKite reported by mail to National Geographic News that he pursued only highly artistic goals, and had nothing to do with subsequent fools. But he doesn’t want to reveal his name. From sin.
The original photograph was also discovered, which served as a kind of background and archaeological setting for the skeleton. The picture was taken in 2000 in New York's Hyde Park (New York) at the site of a real excavation. The skeleton of a mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant, was discovered here.
Regarding the “Indian giant skeleton,” only one thing remained unclear: whose bones played its role?
And the pioneer IronKite seems to have attracted followers. And now the Internet is full of giant skeletons.
An excavation site that was used to “make” a pot with an Indian skeleton.
People are giants. Do you think this is a myth or reality? In the article we will analyze the findings and compare the facts, which will help solve this mystery or get very close to the result.
The existence of giants is evidenced by finds of bones of unusual sizes around the world, as well as myths and legends living mainly among American Indians. Scientists, however, have never paid enough attention to collecting and analyzing this evidence. Probably because they considered the existence of giants impossible.
The book of Genesis (chapter 6, verse 4) reads:“At that time there were giants on the earth, especially since the time when the sons of God began to come in to the daughters of men, and they began to bear children to them. These are strong people who have been famous since ancient times.”
Giant men in history
Goliath
The most famous of the giants described in the Bible is the warrior Goliath of Gath. The Book of Samuel says that Goliath was defeated by the sheep shepherd David, who later became king of Israel. Goliath, according to the biblical description, had a height of more than six cubits, that is, three meters.
His military equipment weighed about 420 kg, and the weight of the metal spear reached 50 kg. There are many stories among the people about giants who were feared by rulers and leaders. Greek mythology tells the story of Enceladus, a giant who fought Zeus and was struck by lightning and covered by Mount Etna.
In the fourteenth century, the skeleton of the supposed Polyphemus, the one-eyed king of the Cyclops, was discovered in Trapani (Sicily), 9 meters long.
The Delaware Indians say that in the old days east of the Mississippi there lived giant men called Alligewi who would not allow them to pass through their lands. declared war on them and eventually forced them to leave the area.
The Sioux Indians had a similar legend. In Minnesota, where they lived, a race of giants appeared, which, according to legend, they destroyed. The bones of giants are probably still in this land.
Trace of the Giant
On Mount Sri Pada in Sri Lanka there is a deep imprint of a man's foot of gigantic proportions: it is 168 cm long and 75 cm wide! Legend says that this is the trace of our ancestor - Adam.
The famous Chinese navigator Zheng He spoke about this find in the 16th century:
“There is a mountain on the island. It is so high that its peak reaches the clouds and the only imprint of a man’s foot can be seen on it. The recess in the rock reaches up to two chi, and the length of the foot is more than 8 chi. They say here that this trace was left by Saint A-Tang, the forefather of mankind.”
Giants from different countries
In 1577, huge human bones were found in Lucerne. The authorities quickly convened scientists who, working under the guidance of the famous anatomist Dr. Felix Plater from Basel, determined that these were the remains of a man 5.8 meters tall!
36 years later, France discovered its own giant. His remains were found in a grotto near Chaumont Castle. This man was 7.6 meters tall! The Gothic inscription "Tentobochtus Rex" was found in the cave, as well as coins and medals, which lead to believe that the skeleton of the Cimbri king was discovered.
Europeans who began to study South America also talked about huge people. The southern part of Argentina and Chile was named Patagonia by Magellan from the Spanish "pata" - hoof, because tracks resembling large hooves were found there.
In 1520, Magellan's expedition encountered a giant in Port San Julian, whose appearance was recorded in the journal: “This man was so tall that we only reached his waist, and his voice sounded like the roar of a bull.” Magellan's men probably even managed to capture two giants, who, chained on the deck, did not survive the journey. But because their bodies stank horribly, they were thrown overboard.
British explorer Francis Drake claimed that in 1578 he got into a fight with giants in South America, whose height was 2.8 meters. Drake lost two people in this battle.
More and more researchers encountered their giants and the number of documents on the topic grew.
In 1592, Anthony Quinett summarized that the height of known giants is, on average, 3-3.5 meters.
Giant Man - Myth or reality?
When, however, Charles Darwin arrived in Patagonia in the 19th century, found no trace of the giants. Earlier information was discarded as it was considered to be greatly exaggerated. But stories of giants continued to come from other regions.
The Incas claimed, What giant people descend from the clouds at regular intervals to live with their women.
It is often difficult to tell the difference between a very tall person and a giant. For a pygmy, a person with a height of 180 cm is probably a giant. However, anyone over two meters tall should be classified as a giant.
That's exactly what he was Irishman Patrick Cotter. He was born in 1760 and died in 1806. He was famous for his height and made his living performing in circuses and fairs. His height was 2 meters 56 centimeters.
At the same time, he lived in the USA Paul Bunyan - Lumberjack, about which there are many legends. According to them, he kept elk as pets, and when he was once attacked by a buffalo, he easily broke its neck. Contemporaries claimed that Bunyan was 2.8 meters tall.
There is also a very interesting document in the English archives, namely, "The History and Antiquities of Allerdale." This work is a collection of folk songs, legends and stories about the Cumberland and tells, in particular, about the discovery of huge remains in the Middle Ages:
“The giant was buried at a depth of 4 meters in what is now farmland, and the grave was marked with a vertical stone. The skeleton was 4.5 meters long and was fully armed. The sword and ax of the dead man lay near him. The sword was more than 2 meters long and 45 centimeters wide.”
In Northern Ireland there are 40,000 closely spaced and driven into the ground conical pillars with convex and concave ends, which are believed to be natural formations. Old legends say, however, that these are the remains of a colossal bridge that connected Ireland and Scotland.
In the spring of 1969, excavations were carried out in Italy and 50 brick-lined coffins were discovered nine kilometers south of Rome. There were no names or other inscriptions on them. All of them contained skeletons of men with a height of 200 to 230 cm. Very tall, especially for Italy.
Archaeologist Dr Luigi Cabalucci said the people died between the ages of 25 and 40. Their teeth were in surprisingly good condition. Unfortunately, the date of the burial and the circumstances under which it occurred were not established.
Where do giants come from?
So, the number of finds increased, and in different countries. But the most intriguing question is “where do they come from? giant people"remains unanswered.
French writer Denis Saurat has formulated a fascinating version. Thinking about what might happen if some other celestial body began to approach Earth, he concluded that the effect of such an event would be a sharp increase in the gravity of our planet.
The tides would be higher, meaning land would be flooded. Another, less well-known consequence of this state of affairs would be gigantism in plants, animals and humans. The latter would reach a height of 5 meters. According to this theory, the size of living organisms increases with increasing radiation, in this case cosmic radiation.
“Increased radiation, including cosmic radiation, probably has two effects: it causes mutations and damages or transforms tissue. Some illustration of the theory and the effect of radiation on growth may be the events of 1902 in Martinique, where Mount Pelée erupted, killing 20,000 people in St. Pierre.
Immediately before the eruption began, a purple cloud consisting of dense gas and water vapor formed over the crater of the volcano. It grew to an unprecedented size and spread throughout the island, whose inhabitants were not yet aware of the threat.
Suddenly, a pillar of fire 1,300 feet high shot out from the volcano. The fire also engulfed the cloud, which burned at temperatures above 1000 degrees. All the inhabitants of St. Pierre died, with the exception of one, who was sitting in a prison cell protected by thick walls.
The destroyed city was never rebuilt, but biological life on the island was reborn faster than expected. The plants and plants returned, but they were all much larger now. Dogs, cats, turtles, lizards and insects were larger than ever before, and each successive generation was taller than the previous one."
French authorities set up a research station at the foot of the mountain and soon discovered that mutations in animals and plants were the result of radiation from minerals released during the volcanic eruption.
This radiation also affected people: the head of the research center, Dr. Jules Graviou, grew by 12.5 cm, and his assistant, Dr. Powen, by 10 cm. It was discovered that the irradiated plants grew three times faster and reached a development level in six months. which would normally take two years.
The lizard, called the copa, which previously reached 20 cm in length, turned into a small dragon 50 cm long, and its bite, previously harmless, became more dangerous than the venom of a cobra.
The strange phenomenon of anomalous enlargement disappeared when these plants and animals were transported from Martinique. On the island itself, the apogee of radiation was reached within 6 months after the explosion, and then its intensity slowly began to return to normal levels.
Is it possible that something similar (maybe on an even larger scale) happened once in the past? Increased doses of radiation could contribute to the formation of abnormally large organisms. This theory finds some support from the fact that huge animals existed on Earth long after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Official science is still suspicious of hypotheses about the existence of gigantic people in the past. However, numerous studies by enthusiasts may well change the usual picture of human history.
Mysterious remains
Traces of the existence of giant people have been discovered repeatedly over many centuries. Reports of found skulls or bones of abnormally large sizes came from different parts of the planet - the USA, Egypt, Armenia, China, India, Mongolia, Australia and even the Pacific Islands. True, a person’s height over two meters now would not surprise anyone. As photographs show, even in the 19th century there were people whose height significantly exceeded two meters.
However, we are talking about finds from which one can judge the much more impressive dimensions of humanoid individuals. In 1911, near Lovelock in the US state of Nevada, guano mining was suspended, as scientists were interested in the found human skeletons with a height of 3.5 meters.
Archaeologists were especially struck by the jaw discovered away from the complete skeletons: its size was at least three times larger than the jaw of an average person.
During the mining of jasper in Australia, the remains of giant people were also found, significantly exceeding three meters in height. But the real sensation was a human tooth 67 millimeters high and 42 millimeters wide. Its owner had to be at least 6 meters tall.
Perhaps the most astonishing discovery was made by the Indian military. Found in the remote Empty Quarter region of India, the well-preserved skeletons reached a height of 12 meters! However, the place was immediately closed from prying eyes, allowing only a team of archaeologists to approach the ancient burial grounds.
Written sources
Information about giant people is contained in almost all known ancient texts - the Torah, Bible, Koran, Vedas, as well as Chinese and Tibetan chronicles, Assyrian cuneiform tablets and Mayan writings.
In the book of the prophet Isaiah there is a mention of how the Jews were sent by sea “to a strong and vigorous people, to a terrible people from the beginning to this day, to a tall people who trample down everything, whose land is cut by rivers.”
But similar information is also available in later sources that claim to be historically accurate. The Arab diplomat Ahmed ibn Fodlan in 922 described the remains of the murdered giant during his embassy to Volga Bulgaria: “and here I am near this man, and I see his height, measuring with my elbow, twelve cubits. And now his head is the biggest cauldron that ever exists. And the nose is larger than a quarter, both eyes are huge, and the fingers are each larger than a quarter.”
If we assume that the Arab traveler’s elbow was of modest size, then the giant’s height was no less than 4 meters.
Interestingly, Fodlan’s story is indirectly confirmed by local legends about an entire tribe of giants, recorded at the end of the 18th century by Russian explorers of the Volga basin.
Stone artifacts
The traces of their material culture can serve as silent witnesses to the existence of giant people. During excavations in Australia, stone tools of impressive size were discovered near the gigantic remains - plows, chisels, knives, clubs and axes, whose weight ranged from 4 to 9 kilograms.
Similar discoveries were made during excavations of ancient settlements in the Okavango Delta. The collection of the US Historical Society exhibits a bronze ax whose height exceeds 1 meter and the blade is half a meter long. The weight of the find is 150 kilograms. A modern athlete would hardly be able to handle such a weapon.
Even more indicative artifacts indicating the possible presence of giants on our planet can be megalithic buildings - we can find them on various continents. Of particular interest to scientists is Lebanese Baalbek, which can only be called a city of giants. At the very least, researchers still cannot scientifically explain the appearance there of stone slabs that fit perfectly together, weighing supposedly up to 800 tons each.
Fake!
A serious debate has recently developed between supporters and opponents of the existence of meganthropes, which does not accept compromises. So anthropologist Maria Mednikova calls the information about the discovery of bones of four-meter people an ordinary fake.
“From a formal point of view,” says the scientist, “it is not confirmed by documented archaeological excavations, there are no conclusions of specialists - anthropologists or forensic doctors - who could reasonably say what these bones are.”
Cases of outright falsification also cause a negative reaction from the scientific community. Thus, the “skeleton of the giant Teutobochus” - the king of the Cimbri, which stood for several centuries in the French Museum of Natural History, turned out to be a fake, skillfully composed of mastodon bones. It is not uncommon for modern discoveries to be exposed upon careful examination of what turn out to be the remains of large mammals. Also, the “defenders of giants” are discredited by the noticeably more frequent cases of photoshop in recent years.
Habitat
The weak point of the theory of meganthropes is modern earthly conditions. Official science assures that with the current atmospheric pressure, oxygen level, gravity and other nuances, people with a height of over 3 meters simply would not survive for purely biological reasons.
As confirmation of this, they cite the example of people suffering from gigantism - such people, as a rule, do not live more than 40 years. However, their opponents have counterarguments. They believe that in the distant past, conditions on Earth were different, including lower gravity and oxygen levels about 50% higher.
The last figure is confirmed by analysis of air bubbles “trapped” in amber. Moreover, modern physicists have simulated conditions in which the force of gravity became an order of magnitude lower than it is now. The conclusions are as follows: weak gravity, low atmospheric pressure and high oxygen content in the air contribute to the gigantization of biological species.
Here, official science does not particularly object - dinosaurs up to 30 meters high are a generally accepted fact. True, there is one more “but”. The age of most machines of giant people is dated back to millions of years, and during this time even bones turn to dust, unless, of course, they are petrified.
"Borjomi Giants"
However, perhaps the giants lived not so long ago. A representative of the same official science, Georgian academician Abesalom Vekua, suggested that 3-meter people inhabited the Borjomi Gorge about 25 thousand years ago. The results of recent discoveries, in his opinion, can become sensational. “Pay attention to the femur,” says the scientist, “it differs from the bone of a modern person in its size and thickness. The skull is also much larger. These people lived and developed separately from the rest of civilization, and therefore differed in height. In scientific literature they are mentioned as giants, but there was no documentary evidence of this hypothesis. Thus, we are on the verge of a sensation. But this will be preceded by painstaking work.”
This is confirmed by the finds of archaeologists - ancient written evidence, structures of amazingly huge sizes that have survived to this day, Cyclopean ruins all over the world and colossal boulders. These buildings and processed stones of incredible size are simply incompatible with the physical capabilities of a person of our time.
Science does not give us a clear and intelligible explanation of how such huge structures could be built. Perhaps the easiest way to explain this phenomenon is that in ancient times there were giant creatures who erected statues in accordance with their height. Otherwise, how could such giant sculptures and architectural structures appear? Where did the grandiose Karnak, the famous Stonehenge and the so-called “hanging” stones in Salisbury come from? And who created the seids and cyclopean ruins on the Kola Peninsula, huge statues of pharaohs, the mysterious Sphinx, incredible Egyptian and South American pyramids? There are many, many such examples that can be given.
For example, at the very base of the Baalbek terrace, which is located in Lebanon, there are 3 blocks, weighing 800 tons each. These blocks are fitted to each other with incredible precision, down to negligible fractions of a millimeter, and this is simply an impossible task even for modern construction technologies. And in order to move just one such block just a little, it would be necessary to attract forty thousand people to the simultaneous effort.
Back in the 19th century, it was mentioned that archaeologists and ordinary residents found huge human remains. And these days we are often informed about the discovery of skeletons of people of abnormal height in different parts of the globe.
So, in 1821, in the state of Tennessee, in the USA, the ruins of an ancient stone wall were found, under which there were two human skeletons; their height reached 2.15 meters. And in Wisconsin, in 1879, during the construction of a granary, workers found huge skull bones and vertebrae.
In 1877, in the state of Nevada, near the town of Evreki, in a hilly and deserted area, gold miners accidentally saw the bones of a man’s shin and foot, darkened with age, grown into the rock. The remains were taken to the city, where paleontologists measured the length of the bones from the foot to the knee. It turned out to be about 97 centimeters, which means that a person with limbs of this size had a height of 3 meters! And the age of the quartzite where the bone was found is about 185 million years.
Similar discoveries were also made on other continents, in different parts of the planet. In Egypt, in 1890, archaeologists found a stone sarcophagus. It contained a clay coffin with a two-meter mummy of a woman with a small child.
In Australia in 1930, near Basarst, while mining jasper, prospectors quite often found fossilized imprints of giant human feet. Anthropologists have named the race of giant people whose remains were found in Australia Meganthropus. The height of people of this race ranged from 2.1 to 3.65 meters.
In Central Africa in 1936, anthropologist and paleontologist from Germany Larson Kohl discovered the skeletons of gigantic people near Lake Elizi. A dozen men were buried in a common grave. The height of these men reached 3.75 meters.
When exploring the same area in 1985, an anthropological expedition carried out excavations at a depth of about 3 meters from the surface of the earth. Researchers from Australia discovered a fossilized molar among a variety of remains. Its height was 6.7 and its width was 4.2 centimeters. The owner of a tooth of this size was at least 7.5 meters tall and weighed 370 kilograms. The age of the fossils was 9 million years.
In some regions of Armenia, eyewitnesses still live who claim that quite often the ordinary population discovered ancient human remains that were several times larger than the usual size of a person.
A very interesting discovery was made by archaeologists in Georgia, in the mountains of the Borjomi Gorge. Huge human bones were discovered here; their age was 25 thousand years. By all parameters, it can be argued that the height of these giant people could reach 2.5-3 meters.
In the mountains of Eastern Georgia, in 2000, two travelers found a cave in which they found skeletons up to four meters in size. Near one of the skeletons there was an unusual huge stiletto made of an unknown metal.
There is also evidence that during the Second World War in Poland, during the burial of those executed, a fossilized skull was found, whose height was 55 centimeters, and this is almost three times the size of the skull of a modern person. The giant to whom the found skull belonged had very proportional features and was no less than 3.5 meters tall.
At the beginning of 2007, almost the whole world was shocked by what British paleontologists found in the Gobi Desert. A human skeleton was discovered here, whose height was approximately 15 m (!). The rock in which scientists found fossilized remains is 45 million years old.
From all the above facts, it seems that the traces of giant people are by no means fiction, because evidence of their existence is available in almost all parts of the world. Naturally, if we consider each find or message separately, they will seem like fiction, a mystery or a miracle. However, if all the facts and information are put together, a completely different picture emerges. Perhaps it is worth studying all this information, making scientific conclusions and generalizations?
