In the history of any nation, there are always more questions than answers. So the question of the existence of giants never on Earth is attributed to the realm of fantasy and mythology. However, one can also recall the legends about dragons and giant serpents, which were also classified as fantasy, myths, but only relatively recently confirmed that they existed and were dinosaurs that inhabited our planet long before mankind.

The image of dragons is inherent in almost every nation and has appeared in the mythology of all nations. The same is true with the image of giants and giants. Maybe this is also a legend until we find one hundred percent evidence of their existence?

There are stories about the existence of giant people not only in the Bible, which mentions the myth of David and Goliath, and the myths that in antediluvian times the earth was inhabited by huge people. Such myths are found all over the world: from South America to Australia. Every nation has, to one degree or another, information about the giants. And only relatively recently around the world began to discover products and objects that are more than one thousand years old, and which ordinary people could not use.

finds

So in South America in the Okavango River area, during excavations ancient settlement huge axes and axes were found. One of them was taken by archaeologists to America, where they were exhibited in the US Historical Society. The exhibit is more than a meter long, more than half a meter wide, and its weight is 150 kg. Age over 49 million years.

IN South Africa trace was discovered in 1912 huge man. It was 1.3 meters long and even the dirt that could have remained between the toes of that person was visible on the imprint of the left foot. The imprint, but already of the right foot, was discovered by the Arab navigator Ibn Battuta in the 14th century on the island of Ceylon. According to the rumors that prevailed then at that time, it was this island that was the cradle of mankind and it was there that Adam was born.

There is a mountain on the island, which has been referred to as "Adam's Peak" for quite a long time. It was this place that the traveler wanted to visit in order to find the remains of the forefather of mankind. He did not find the remains, but found the footprint of a giant man. 1.5 meters long and 80 cm wide. As scientists later found out, the growth of such a person could be more than 10 meters. Converges with the description of the antediluvian people inhabiting the earth in the Bible.

In the 1930s at Basarsta, Australia, jasper miners often found huge footprints. human legs. The size of their owners was supposed to be 210-365 cm. Anthropologists called the race of these people meganthropuses. This race is similar to the Gigantopithecus race found in China. Judging by the remains of teeth and legs found in various provinces, Asian giants were 3 to 3.5 meters tall and weighed about 400 kg.

An anthropological examination, which was carried out in 1985 at the place where footprints were found in 1930, ended in a sensation. At a depth of more than 3 meters, a human tooth was found, 67 mm high and 42 mm wide. The owner had to be at least 7.5 meters tall and weigh at least 370 kg. Hydrocarbon analysis showed the age of the find - 9 million years.

In 1979, in the Blue Mountains, local farmers discovered a stone with a small human footprint. Having fully restored the imprint, it turned out that the age of the trace is more than 10 million years, and it belonged to a 6-meter giant. And at the beginning of the 20th century, in the Gobi Desert, in southern Mongolia, fossilized bones of a humanoid creature were discovered, whose age is more than 45 million years. Its main feature was 15 meters long arms and 7 meters long legs. In 1936, on the shores of Lake Elizi, in Central Africa, during archaeological work, a mass grave was discovered, in which they found the skeletons of people whose height during their lifetime was about 3.5 meters.

In Alaska, in 1950, while building a road, a local bulldozer discovered two fossilized skulls, vertebrae, and foot bones. The skulls were 58 cm high and 30 cm wide. Ancient giants had a double row of teeth and disproportionately flat heads. The vertebrae, like the skulls, were three times larger than those of modern man. The length of the leg bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters. And during the Second World War, when the Germans were digging a huge grave for the executed prisoners, a skull 55 cm high was discovered, which is three times the size of the skull modern people. The giant to whom the skull belonged had proportional facial features and was over 3.5 meters tall.

The remains of giants are found all over the world. Secrets of the Giants and ancient history land Is it fiction, or is there really truth in it?

Giants in ancient Karelia

Living folk tradition throughout Finland and some corners of Karelia ascribes belonging, in some places, to the still preserved grave stone piles and mounds, to the non-Finnish people who inhabited all of Finland in ancient times, northern part Scandinavia and even Karelia in the current territories of the Kem and Olonets provinces. The Finnish name for this ancient people is Hiisi. A people who, according to ancient Finnish legends, were famous for their growth.

An excerpt from one saga about the discovery of Norway begins like this: “Forniot was called the king: he ruled over Jotland, as Finland was then called, and Kvenlandt. This king was Nora's great-grandfather, but we do not know other details about him. These lines were written about the times when neither Norway nor Finland were inhabited by historical peoples. The more interesting for us is the very name Forniot, which means "the giant of former times."

As the northern territories settled, the giants moved farther north. So the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus (1140-1206) mentions that "the giants have now retired to those deserts that lie on the other side of Gandvik, north of Norway." By the way, many nationalities (Finns, Swedes, Saami, Karelians) have preserved the memory of the resettlement of "giant people" in ancient times.

The Arab historian Ibn-Fadlan, having learned at the beginning of the 10th century that “there is some extraordinary giant in the Volga Bulgar”, turned with a request to the Bulgar king himself. The king answered that there really was such a giant in his country, but he died; and he was not one of his people and "not a real person." “And he was twelve cubits tall (about six meters), his head was the size of a large cauldron, a huge nose, eyes and fingers were enormous. He was from the peoples of the Vesi. I saw his bones - they are of immense size, ”Ibn-Fadlan notes.

The Danes have a hero, Olaf, who lived in the area where the Hiisi lived. There are legends in which he could lift a boat with one hand, helped drag stones that even groups of people could not lift, and lived in such a taiga in which no ordinary person would have survived.

The book of the outstanding Russian ethnographer and archaeologist Theodor Schvindt “Folk legends of the northwestern Ladoga region, collected in the summer of 1879”, which has long become a bibliographic rarity, provides unique information about the “giants ancient land Korelskaya.

“Legends about metelilayinens,” T. Schwindt points out further, “are preserved almost everywhere, but there are especially many of them in the Kurkijoki volost (now the village of Kurkijoki, Lahdenpohsky district). Probably because in some places there is a lot of real evidence of the activities of giant people: these are fields cleared of forests, and from time to time huge human bones that come across in the ground, and plows abandoned by the metelylainen, as well as huge ramparts in the mountains and on islands " .

So the ancient giants - a myth, or a reality? This question cannot be answered at this stage. The only thing that remains is to wait for new research on this topic, which will be able to shed light on the past of our kind.

giant skeletons

Historical chronicles of the 19th century often report finds in different parts of the world of skeletons of people of abnormally tall stature.

In 1821, in the United States in 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 were found "of incredible thickness and size," according to a newspaper article.
In 1883, several burial mounds were discovered in Utah, in which there were burials of people of very tall stature - 195 centimeters, which is at least 30 centimeters higher than the average height of the Aboriginal Indians.

The latter did not make these burials and could not provide any information about them. In 1885, in Gusterville (Pennsylvania), a stone crypt was discovered in a large grave 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 in Germany discovered fossilized skeletons of people ranging in height from 210 to 240 centimeters.

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 features of the face and the addition of the mummies differed sharply 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 growth of a mummified woman during her lifetime was two meters, and men - about three meters.

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basharst, Australia, jasper miners often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. The race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, anthropologists called meganthropus. The growth of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Megantropuses are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were found in China. Judging by the fragments of jaws and many teeth found, the growth of Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and the weight was 400 kilograms Near Basarst, in 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, which specifically investigated this area in 1985 for the presence of the 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 67 mm high and 42 mm 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, amounting to nine million years.

Three huge footprints 60 centimeters long and 17 wide were found near Malgoa. The giant's stride length measured 130 centimeters Footprints were preserved in petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if evolution is considered correct) Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Macleay River The fingerprints of these footprints are long 10, and the width of the foot is 25 centimeters. Obviously, the Australian Aborigines were not the first inhabitants of the continent. It is interesting that in their folklore there are 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 giant skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. "The giant is buried four yards deep in the ground and is in full military dress. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The length of the skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters), and the teeth" big man"measured 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)"

In 1877, near Eureka, Nevada, prospectors were working for gold panning in a deserted, hilly region. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out above the ledge of the cliff. People climbed a rock and were surprised to find the human bones of the foot and lower leg, along with the patella. The bone was immured in the rock, and the prospectors freed it from the rock with picks. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers delivered it to Evreka. The stone, in which the rest of the leg was embedded, was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which betrayed their solid age. The leg was broken above the knee and was a knee joint and completely preserved bones of the lower leg and foot. 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 life 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 One of the museums sent researchers to the place of discovery in the hope of finding the rest of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing more was found.

In 1936, the German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shores of Lake Elisey in Central Africa. 12 men buried in mass grave, had during their lifetime growth from 350 to 375 centimeters. Curiously, 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 the executed, a fossilized skull 55 centimeters high was found, that is, almost three times more than that of a modern adult. The giant to whom the skull belonged had very proportional features and was at least 3.5 meters tall.

giant skulls

Ivan T. Sanderson, a renowned zoologist and frequent guest on the 1960s popular American show Tonight, once shared with the public curious story about a letter he had 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 found two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the grave mounds. The height of the skulls reached 58 cm and a width of 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. North America The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger than those of modern humans. The length of the leg bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.

In South Africa, in diamond mines in 1950, a fragment of a huge skull 45 centimeters high was discovered. Above the superciliary arches were two strange protrusions resembling small horns. Anthropologists, in whose hands the find fell, determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.
There is not quite reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in South-East Asia and on the islands of Oceania.

Ivan RYBAKOV, UFO No. 23, 2002

There is irrefutable evidence that giant people lived on Earth. archaeological finds different years found all over the world confirm this fact.

Historical chronicles of the 19th century often report finds in different parts of the world of skeletons of people of abnormally tall stature.

In 1883, several burial mounds were discovered in Utah, in which there were burials of people of very tall stature - 195 centimeters, which is at least 30 centimeters above the average height of the Aboriginal Indians. The latter did not make these burials and could not provide any information about them. In 1885, in Gusterville (Pennsylvania), a stone crypt was discovered in a large grave 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 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 features of the face and the addition of the mummies differed sharply from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of a man and a woman with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovelok (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The growth of a mummified woman during her lifetime was two meters, and men - about three meters.

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basharst, Australia, jasper miners often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. The race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, anthropologists called meganthropus. The growth of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Megantropuses are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were found in China. Judging by the found fragments of jaws and many teeth, the growth of Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and the weight was 400 kilograms Near Basarst, in 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, which specifically investigated the area in 1985 for the presence of the remains of meganthropus, excavated at a depth of up to three meters from the surface of the earth. Australian researchers found, among other things, a petrified molar 67 mm high and 42 mm 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, amounting to 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, locals found a huge stone protruding above the surface of the stream, on which one could see the imprint of part of a huge foot with five fingers. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 cm long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man of six meters in height. Near Malgoa, three huge footprints 60 centimeters long, 17 wide were found. The giant's step length was measured 130 centimeters. Traces were preserved in the petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is considered correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 cm long and the width of the foot is 25 cm. Obviously, the Australian Aborigines were not the first inhabitants of the continent. It is interesting that in their folklore there are 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 giant skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried to a depth of four yards and is in full military dress. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The length of the skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters), and the teeth of the "big man" measure 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)"

In 1877, near Eureka, Nevada, prospectors were working for gold panning in a deserted, hilly region. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out above the ledge of the cliff. People climbed a rock and were surprised to find the human bones of the foot and lower leg, along with the patella. The bone was immured in the rock, and the prospectors freed it from the rock with picks. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers delivered it to Evreka. The stone, in which the rest of the leg was embedded, was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which betrayed their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of a knee joint and intact bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and came to the conclusion 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 the knee to the 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 place of discovery in the hope of finding the rest of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing more was found.

In 1936, the German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shores of Lake Elisey in Central Africa. 12 men buried in a mass grave had a height of 350 to 375 centimeters during their lifetime. Curiously, their skulls had sloping chins and two rows of upper and lower teeth.

giant skulls

Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on the popular American show Tonight in the 60s, once shared with the public a curious 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 the workers found two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the grave mounds. The skulls were 58 cm high and 30 cm wide. 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 babies in order to make the heads become elongated as they grow, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger than those of modern humans. The length of the leg 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 superciliary arches were two strange protrusions resembling small horns. Anthropologists, in whose hands the find fell, determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.

There is reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and on the islands of Oceania.

At the beginning of the 16th century, one discovery made the whole French kingdom talk about itself: a complete skeleton of a man of gigantic stature was found, who lived in a very specific era. It was the king of the Cimbri, one of the two tribes attacking Gaul, who was defeated by the Roman general Marius. Nicolas Habicot published in 1613 "A Dissertation on the Skeleton of the Giant Teutobochus, King of the Cimbri". This skeleton really made a strong impression, because it belonged to a man 25 feet tall. The discovery, which was considered genuine, was only talked about for a long time, and the alleged skeleton of "Teutoboch" for several generations occupied its rightful place in the Museum of Natural History. This was also believed in the 19th century, but Cuvier, approaching his research more carefully, discovered a cunning hoax. The famous skeleton, submitted in September 1842 for consideration to the Academy of Sciences, turned out to be made up of real fossil bones, but these were not human bones at all: they were the bones of ... a mastodon, that is, a species of prehistoric giant elephant that disappeared even before the appearance of mammoths. This means that the dexterous "needleworker" simply figured out how to give the bones a "standing" position, so that the growth and posture of the skeleton resembled the backbone of a person.

It is also usually noted that the presence of giant monuments does not at all speak in favor of the actual existence of giants. Pyramids and megaliths are certainly impressive, but there is no reason to believe that their creators were of gigantic stature. In the end, Cathedral in Strasbourg - also a huge building, but nevertheless it was built by people of quite normal size, they just possessed perfect technology.

And yet there are some very intriguing archaeological discoveries. Archaeologist Burkhalter during excavations in Moravia discovered a stone tool, the dimensions of which exceeded three by four meters, and the weight was equal to three or four pounds! It was quite obviously a used tool, and not at all a symbolic piece of household utensils; it is clear that the presence of a votive ax would no more prove the existence of giants than the discovery of huge statues in an ancient temple. But there is much better evidence: found in Tiaguanaco whole city, built for people whose normal height was gigantic - three or four meters.

Let us give the floor to our friend Marcel Moreau: “Humanity keeps in its atavistic memory the memories of these giants of the highest intelligence, descended from the gods, giants who guided and taught people. Humanity remembers paradise, lost from the very beginning, about the initial high initiation, followed by the fall.

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Recently, archaeologists have discovered in the Kuban the remains of ancient people of gigantic growth. They were buried about 4,000 years ago... We are talking about the phenomenon of giant people who lived in the Caucasus and other anomalous phenomena with Vadim Chernobrov, coordinator of the Kosmopoisk research public association. "Grave of the Giants" - What else anomalous phenomena was marked this year? - Firstly, our expedition visited a man who was struck by ball lightning 5 times. He lives in Krasnodar Territory, in Ust-Labinsk. We went to see him right after the fifth "attack" of lightning. They took the T-shirt in which he was at the moment of impact. It is burned, the edges of the hole are melted,
and we hope that fragments of the substance of which ball lightning is composed remained there. We are going to study it in the laboratory.

Secondly,
we were in Ingushetia, where, after a mountain collapse, a cave was opened, which
the locals call it the cave of the genies. It must be said that for many
Muslims are very real entities, they believe in them. To this cave
they are afraid to come at night: people there begin to behave inappropriately,
for some reason they take off their pants, feel themselves suspended by their legs, etc.
after the collapse of the rock, riot police visited this place, climbed inside,
but they suddenly became afraid. They got out and threw grenades into the cave. TO
Unfortunately (or fortunately), we did not find the genies in the cave (laughs).

- you a few years ago
discovered in the Caucasus "grave of giants". Have you been able to explore it? How
once recently there was a message that in the Kuban, archaeologists stumbled upon
burials of very tall people.

In the Caucasus, legends about giant people
distributed everywhere. They are called Narts, there are legends about them.
almost all the peoples of the North Caucasus.

That grave that we found a few years
back, is an artificial bulk hill. When looking at
he has no doubt that this is a grave, and a gigantic creature.
The dimensions of the stepped pyramidal mound are comparable to those of Egypt
pyramids, only one platform at the top is 80 meters long.
It is oriented strictly along the east-west line, which is typical for
many ancient graves. Earlier we probed the hill with a geolocator.
The device showed that there are “foreign” inclusions in the depths. Excavations
have not been held yet, but this year they were not needed: we were called
to a similar place where a mudflow opened a stone-lined underground
cavity. This is in Kabardino-Balkaria, near the Georgian border. We
descended into the cavity on a rope and found many skulls and
bones. These are not the remains of giants, but definitely the skulls belonged to
very tall people. This means that the Caucasian legends about giant ancestors are not
groundless.

Russian scientists have found the remains of giant people in the Caucasus

The Caucasus has something to be famous for, except for
their strict traditions. Russian scientists for the first time in the history of the world
science managed to discover what was only supposed earlier in the known
archaeological laboratories. We are talking about giant people.

giant people
nevertheless existed, and direct evidence of this is the skeletons,
found in the Meshoko cave. A huge grave was discovered by a local
population, which was immediately reported to the authorities. Archaeologists who arrived
to the place of discovery, confirmed that the bones really belong
Homo sapiens. Previously, the entrance to the cave was blocked by rocks, but
the recent collapse in the mountains opened to mankind a large archaeological
riddle.

On March 29, experts cleared the remains of the giants a little and already said
their exact height. Its performance ranges from 3.5 to 4 meters. But it's still
Not all! The corresponding growth also suggested the presence of a huge cranial
boxes. This means giant humans could be a lot smarter.
Einstein and more capable than Leonardo da Vinci.

When the jaws of giant people were examined, it was discovered
a unique phenomenon for mankind - two rows of upper and lower teeth.
Of course, this is physiologically impossible in the mouth of a modern person,
therefore, the giant people had a beveled chin, which made it possible to fit
all teeth in the mouth. At the same time, the skull of a giant man has a height of 43.5
up to 55.7 cm.

Archaeologists cannot yet give more detailed comments. Skeletons
are now clearing the ground and sent to the laboratory of the Krasnodar
the edges. As WellNews.ru correspondents were told, the find
US scientists are interested. Perhaps some of the skeletons will be shipped
for research in the American state.

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Before the flood people were giants

3.02.2012 02:40

There is irrefutable evidence that giant people lived on Earth. Archaeological finds of different years, found around the world, confirm this fact.

Historical chronicles of the 19th century often report finds in different parts of the world of skeletons of people of abnormally tall stature.

In 1883, several burial mounds were discovered in Utah, in which there were burials of people of very tall stature - 195 centimeters, which is at least 30 centimeters higher than the average height of the Aboriginal Indians. The latter did not make these burials and could not provide any information about them. In 1885, in Gusterville (Pennsylvania), a stone crypt was discovered in a large grave 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 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 features of the face and the addition of the mummies differed sharply from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of a man and a woman with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovelok (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The growth of a mummified woman during her lifetime was two meters, and men - about three meters.

Australian finds

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, locals found a huge stone protruding above the surface of the stream, on which one could see the imprint of part of a huge foot with five fingers. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 cm long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man of six meters in height. Near Malgoa, three huge footprints 60 centimeters long and 17 wide were found. The giant's step length was measured 130 centimeters. Traces were preserved in the petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is considered correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 cm long and the width of the foot is 25 cm. Obviously, the Australian Aborigines were not the first inhabitants of the continent. It is interesting that in their folklore there are 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 giant skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried to a depth of four yards and is in full military dress. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The length of the skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters), and the teeth of the "big man" measure 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)"

In 1877, near Eureka, Nevada, prospectors were working for gold panning in a deserted, hilly region. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out above the ledge of the cliff. People climbed a rock and were surprised to find the human bones of the foot and lower leg, along with the patella. The bone was immured in the rock, and the prospectors freed it from the rock with picks. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers delivered it to Evreka. The stone, in which the rest of the leg was embedded, was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which betrayed their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of a knee joint and intact bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and came to the conclusion 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 the knee to the foot. The owner of this limb during his lifetime had a height of 3 meters 60 centimeters.

giant skulls

There is reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and on the islands of Oceania.

It is also usually noted that the presence of giant monuments does not at all speak in favor of the actual existence of giants. Pyramids and megaliths are certainly impressive, but there is no reason to believe that their creators were of gigantic stature. After all, the cathedral in Strasbourg is also a huge building, but nevertheless it was built by people of quite normal size, they just possessed perfect technology.

And yet there are some very intriguing archaeological discoveries. Archaeologist Burkhalter during excavations in Moravia discovered a stone tool, the dimensions of which exceeded three by four meters, and the weight was equal to three or four pounds! It was quite obviously a used tool, and not at all a symbolic piece of household utensils; it is clear that the presence of a votive ax would no more prove the existence of giants than the discovery of huge statues in an ancient temple. But there is much better evidence: an entire city was found in Tiaguanaco, built for people whose normal height was gigantic - three or four meters.

Giants of antiquity - fiction or reality? Here is what recently appeared on the Internet: The Smithsonian Institution admitted that it destroyed thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900s.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the release to the Smithsonian of classified documents dating back to the early 1900s proving that the organization was involved 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 high-ranking officials for defending the dominant chronology of human evolution that existed at the time.

Suspicions from the American Institute for Alternative Archaeology (AIAA) that the Smithsonian Institution had destroyed thousands of giant human remains were taken aback by the organization, which responded by suing the AIAA for defamation and attempted to damage the reputation of the 168-year-old institution.

New details surfaced during the trial when a number of Smithsonian insiders acknowledged the existence of documents that supposedly prove the destruction of tens of thousands of human skeletons ranging in size from 6 to 12 feet tall, according to AIAA spokesman James Charward. ;), the existence of which traditional archeology, for various reasons, does not want to recognize.

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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 human femur 1.3 meters long as evidence of the existence of such giant human bones. This evidence blew a hole in the defense of the institute's lawyers, as the bone was stolen from the organization by a high-ranking curator in the mid-1930s, who kept it all his life and wrote a written confession on his deathbed about the cover-up operations of the Smithsonian Institution.

“It's terrible what they do to people,” he writes in his letter. “We hide the truth about the ancestors of mankind, about the giants who inhabited the earth, which are mentioned in the bible, as well as other ancient texts.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Institute to release classified information about anything related to “destruction of evidence relating to pre-European culture” as well as elements “associated with larger-than-usual human skeletons.”

“The publication of these documents will help archaeologists and historians revisit current theories about human evolution and help us better understand pre-European culture in America and the rest of the world,” said 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 finds in different parts of the world of skeletons of people of abnormally tall stature.
In 1821, in the United States in 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 were found "of incredible thickness and size," according to a newspaper article.

In 1899, miners in the Ruhr region in Germany discovered fossilized skeletons of people ranging in height from 210 to 240 centimeters.

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 features of the face and the addition of the mummies differed sharply from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of a man and a woman with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovelok (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The growth of a mummified woman during her lifetime was two meters, and men - about three meters.

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basharst, Australia, jasper miners often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. The race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, anthropologists called megantropus. The growth of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Meganthropus are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were found in China Judging by the fragments of jaws and many teeth found, the growth of Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and the weight was 400 kilograms Near Basarst, in river deposits, 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.

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, locals found a huge stone protruding above the surface of the stream, on which one could see the imprint of part of a huge foot with five fingers. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 cm long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man of six meters in height
Near Malgoa, three huge footprints were found, 60 centimeters long, 17 wide. The giant's step length was measured 130 centimeters. Traces were preserved in the petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is considered correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 cm long and the width of the foot is 25 cm. Obviously, the Australian Aborigines were not the first inhabitants of the continent. It is interesting that in their folklore there are 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 giant skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried to a depth of four yards and is in full military dress. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The length of the skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters), and the teeth of the "big man" measure 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)"

In 1877, near Eureka, Nevada, prospectors were working for gold panning in a deserted, hilly region. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out above the ledge of the cliff. People climbed a rock and were surprised to find the human bones of the foot and lower leg, along with the patella. The bone was immured in the rock, and the prospectors freed it from the rock with picks. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers delivered it to Evreka. The stone, in which the rest of the leg was embedded, was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which betrayed their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of a knee joint and intact bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and came to the conclusion 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 the knee to the 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 place of discovery in the hope of finding the rest of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing more was found.

giant skulls

There is not quite reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and on the islands of Oceania.

Almost all peoples have legends about the Giants who lived in ancient times on the territory of a particular country. Armenia is no exception, but unlike other places, local stories cannot be dismissed so easily. And, although not all anthropologists and archaeologists believe that we are talking about a whole race of giants, and not about single tall specimens, attempts to discover last resort our distant ancestors or traces of their economic activities.

So, during the scientific and practical expedition that took place in 2011, a number of evidence was collected, from which it followed that rather large people, 2 meters or more tall, inhabited some regions of Armenia.

Fragments of a skeleton found in the crypt of the village of Khot.

Artsrun Hovsepyan, director of the Goshavank historical complex, said that in 1996, when laying a road through the hills, bones of such a size were found 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 was last autumn (2010) and 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 found 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. That was his size. The lower leg was higher than my lower back, it was about 1 m 15 cm. This bone was also not easy. In 1984, a new plant was being built near the city of Sisian. Tractors were digging the foundation. Suddenly one of them, discarding a layer of earth, stopped. An ancient burial was opened before the observers, where the remains of a very large man lay. The burial, in which the second giant lay, was littered with huge stones from above. Up to the middle of the ribs, the skeleton was covered with earth, there was a sword along the body, with two hands he held its handle, which was made of bone. Before that, I thought that the giants lived in ancient times. Maybe I would not have paid attention to it, but the sword was made of metal, because along the whole body there was a layer of rust left from 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 whole skeletons of the ancient period were found, which they showed him. “I was just taken aback, because, probably, the thumb of such a person would be thicker than my hand. I myself participated in the excavations and often met the remains of people who were much taller than me. Of course, I won’t name their height for sure, but more than 2 meters. Because the discovered tibia or hip bone, when I applied it to my leg, was much longer.

Human bone found at excavations in Armenia. Shot from the film "City of Giants". Although human growth, according to the authors, reached 2 meters, it still did not reach the “giant”

Movses Khorenatsi (representative of Armenian feudal historiography, lived in the 5th-early 6th centuries) wrote that the cities of the 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 opened. The already mentioned Vazgen Gevorgyan: “The entire population of the village of Khot talks about the skeletons of giants found there. In particular, many years ago, Razmik Arakelyan personally saw the graves of two giants during earthworks. The headman of the village also told about this, to whom his father showed the exact place. Everyone who saw it was very surprised at what huge people once lived here. There apparently was their cemetery, and this place should be explored.

In the neighboring village of Tandzatap, there are also witnesses who spoke about giant bones - the tibia reached the waist of the tallest of them. This happened in 1986 when they were making terraces for fruit trees. Tractors dug up the side of the mountain many meters deep. Thanks to this, very ancient layers turned out to be accessible. The tractor bucket demolished the lower slab, and then the burial itself was opened, from which the bone of a real giant was removed. Mikhail Ambartsumyan, at that time personally supervised the work.

Mikhail Ambartsumyan, former headman of the village: “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, it was not visible. So they left it. 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. In height, the carp reached about 2 meters.

Sometimes there are also finds of mammoth skulls, which, due to their structure, are often mistaken 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 pour concrete again and put a beam. When the concrete was broken, a flat stone was found under it, and a hole was found under the stone. “And in the pit they found a skull, one-eyed, the eye was on the forehead, the 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 got it out of the pit. My husband was advised to take the find to the museum. He took the skull, I don’t know if he took the rest or not.” This suggests that the bones of mammoths or other animals may have been confused with human bones.

A scandal is also connected with the quoted film "City of Giants", so the leading researcher of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History, Ph.D. Maria Borisovna Mednikova addressed an open letter to the Kultura TV channel and stated that her words were misrepresented in the film, since she is an opponent of 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 "alpine 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.

The finds of human skeletons significantly exceeding the size that modern science can imagine does not mean that it was a whole race, it may be more correct to talk about only some of its representatives, endowed with divine properties during their lifetime, and buried in special stone burials with more honors than their compatriots, who have not been touched by the hand of all the genetic advantages of the “alpine type”?

By the way, I can explain the story, for example, this photo:

At first, the scandalous photo was distributed without any details. They appeared only in 2007 in the Indian magazine Hindu Voice.

Where the correspondent reported that the skeleton of a giant 18 meters tall 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, which were mentioned in the Mahabharata (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. Say, he fell for the facts obtained from sources, which, as it has now become obvious, were not trustworthy.

But the thirst for knowledge was already unsatisfied. Information about the "Indian find" climbed out of all Internet cracks with renewed vigor. And, of course, along with a photo of a giant.

In short, the public suspects a conspiracy. And she's right. There really was a conspiracy. It was organized back in 2002.

There are so many skeletons

As the investigation showed, the photo specifically of the "Indian skeleton" was made by an artistic photoshop specialist from Canada, a certain IronKite. But not for malicious intent, but in the form of participation in the annual competition called "Archaeological Anomalies 2". Where the author was awarded the third place (which works were awarded the first and second prizes, it is not possible to determine now - access to the competition website is closed). Participants were asked to fabricate some amazing archaeological find. Some of them were very talented. And it fell on fertile ground - many do not doubt that giants once lived on Earth.

Also - no less than an Indian

Giant graves are also found underwater

IronKite reported by mail to National Geographic News that it was only for highly artistic purposes and had nothing to do with subsequent fools. But he does not want to reveal his name. From sin.

The original photograph was also discovered, which served as a kind of background and archaeological entourage for the skeleton. The picture was taken in 2000 in New York's Hyde Park (Hyde Park, New York) at the site of real excavations. The skeleton of a mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant, was discovered here.

Regarding the “Indian skeleton of a giant”, only one thing remained unclear: whose bones played its role?

And the trailblazer IronKite seems to be followed by followers. And now the Internet is full of giant skeletons.