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 found repeatedly over the centuries. Reports of the found turtles or bones of an abnormally large size came from different parts of the planet - the USA, Egypt, Armenia, China, India, Mongolia, Australia and even the Pacific Islands. True, you will not surprise anyone with a human height over two meters. As the photographs testify, in the 19th century there were people whose height was much more than two meters.
However, we are talking about finds, which can be used to judge the much more impressive dimensions of humanoid individuals. In 1911, near Lovelock in the US state of Nevada, the extraction of guano was suspended, as scientists were interested in the found human skeletons with an increase of 3.5 meters.
Particularly archaeologists were struck by the jaw found away from full skeletons: its size was at least three times the jaw of an average person.
During the jasper mining in Australia, the remains of giant people were also found, significantly exceeding three meters in height. But the real sensation was the human tooth 67 millimeters high and 42 millimeters wide. Its owner had to be at least 6 meters tall.
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Perhaps the most striking find was found by the Indian military. Found in a remote region of India, "Empty Quarter", 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 visit the ancient burial grounds.
Written sources
Information about the giant people is contained in almost all known ancient texts - Torah, Bible, Koran, Vedas, as well as Chinese and Tibetan chronicles, Assyrian cuneiform tablets and Maya 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 the present, to a tall people and trampling on everything, whose land is cut by rivers."
But there is similar information 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 the Volga Bulgaria: “And here I am next to this man, and I see the growth in him, measuring twelve cubits with my elbow. And now he has a head - the largest cauldron that can ever be. And the nose is more than a quarter, both eyes are huge, and each fingers are more than a quarter."
If we assume that the elbow of the Arab traveler was of modest size, then the growth of the giant was in no way lower than 4 meters.
Interestingly, the story of Fodlan is indirectly confirmed by local legends about a whole 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 be the silent witnesses of the existence of giant people. During excavations in Australia near the gigantic remains, stone tools of impressive size were discovered - plows, chisels, knives, clubs and axes, whose weight ranged from 4 to 9 kilograms.
Similar finds were made during excavations of ancient settlements in the Okavango Delta. In the collection of the Historical Society of the United States, there is a bronze ax, which is more than 1 meter high and its blade is half a meter long. The weight of the find is 150 kilograms. A modern athlete would hardly have mastered such a tool. Unfortunately, such finds are sent to the storerooms of museums, but in the St. Petersburg Hermitage you can see a large ring and a giant teapot with a bucket.
Even more revealing artifacts, indicating the possible presence of giants on our planet, can serve as megalithic structures - we can find them on various continents. The Lebanese Baalbek, which cannot be called otherwise than a city of giants, is of particular interest to scientists. At least, researchers still cannot scientifically explain the appearance of stone slabs that are ideally fitted to each other, weighing presumably up to 800 tons each.
Why did they disappear?
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 have survived for purely biological reasons.
As evidence of this, they cite the example of people suffering from gigantism - such people, as a rule, do not live for more than 40 years. However, their opponents have counterarguments. They believe that in the distant past, conditions on Earth were different, including the force of gravity was lower, and the oxygen level was about 50% higher.
The last figure is confirmed by the analysis of air bubbles "trapped" in amber. Moreover, modern physicists have modeled conditions in which the force of gravity has become 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 giganticization of biological species.
Here, the 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 of the machines of the giant people dates back to millions of years, and during this time even bones turn to dust, unless, of course, they are petrified.
However, the giants may have lived not so long ago. The representative of the same official science, the Georgian academician Abesalom Vekua, suggested that 3-meter-tall people inhabited the Borjomi Gorge about 25 thousand years ago. The results of recent finds, in his opinion, can become sensational. “Pay attention to the thigh bone, - 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 growth. In the scientific literature, they are referred to as giants, but there was no documentary evidence for this hypothesis. Thus, we are on the verge of a sensation. But this will be preceded by painstaking work."
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