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 the state of Tennessee, the ruins of an ancient stone wall were found, and under it were two human skeletons 215 centimeters high. 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 very tall - 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 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 in Germany discovered the 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 facial features and constitution of the mummy differed sharply from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of men and women with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovlock (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The height of the mummified woman during her lifetime was two meters, and the man was about three meters.
Australian finds
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In 1930, near Basarst in Australia, prospectors at jasper mines often found fossil imprints of huge human feet. The race of giant people, the remains of which were found in Australia, were called by anthropologists megantropuses. The height of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Meganthropuses 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 the Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and the weight of 400 kilograms., chisels, knives and axes. Modern Homo sapiens would hardly be able to work with instruments weighing from 4 to 9 kilograms.
An anthropological expedition, which specifically investigated the area in 1985 for the presence of the remains of meganthropuses, carried out excavations at a depth of 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 to be nine million years.
In 1971 in Queensland, farmer Stephen Walker, 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 rock sticking out above the surface of the stream, on which the imprint of a part of a huge foot with five toes was visible. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had survived 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, 17 - wide. The giant's stride length was measured at 130 centimeters. Traces have been preserved in the petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (assuming the theory of evolution is correct). Huge traces are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these tracks are 10 centimeters long and the foot is 25 centimeters wide. Obviously, the aborigines of Australia 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 the University of Oxford, there is an account of the discovery of a giant skeleton, made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried four yards in the ground and is in full military dress. His sword and battle-ax rest beside him. The skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters) long and the teeth of the "big man" measure 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)."
In 1877, not far from Evreki in Nevada, prospectors worked at a gold mine in a desolate 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 patella. The bone was walled up in the rock, and the prospectors freed it from the rock with pickaxes. Assessing the uncommonness of the find, the workers brought it to Yevrek. The stone into 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 represented the knee joint and the intact bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and concluded that the leg was clearly human. But the most intriguing aspect of the find was the foot size - 97 centimeters from knee to foot. The owner of this limb during his lifetime was 3 meters 60 centimeters tall. Even more mysterious turned out to be the age of quartzite, in which the fossil was found - 185 million years, the era of the dinosaurs. Local newspapers vied with each other to report the sensation. One of the museums sent researchers to the find in the hope of finding the rest of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing else was found.
In 1936, German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant humans on the shores of Lake Elysee 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.
There is evidence that during the Second World War, a fossil skull 55 centimeters high was found on the territory of Poland during the burial of those shot, that is, almost three times more than that of a modern adult. The giant who owned the skull had very proportional features and was at least 3.5 meters tall.
Skulls of giants
Ivan T. Sanderson, a famous zoologist and frequent guest of the American show "Tonight", which was popular in the 60s, once shared with the public an interesting story about a letter he received from a certain Alan McSheer. The author of the letter in 1950 worked as a bulldozer 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 burial mounds. The skulls reached 58 cm in height and 30 cm in width. The ancient giants had a double row of teeth and disproportionately flat heads. Each skull had a neat round hole at the top. It should be noted that the custom of deforming the skulls of babies to make the heads take on an elongated shape as they grew, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skull,were three times the size of modern humans. The length of the shin bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.
In South Africa, at a diamond mine 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, in whose hands the find fell, determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.
There is not entirely reliable evidence of finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and the islands of Oceania.