The ancient Hebrew historian Flavius Josephus once described the giants as having "a colossal body, their faces amaze people, and their voices cause fear." The ancient Greek writer Pausanias, who lived in the II century, also claimed that a perfectly preserved skeleton of a giant, about 5-odd meters in height, was discovered in Syria.
The Arabs also have similar records. The Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan, who lived 1000 years ago, once saw a skeleton about 6 meters tall. According to him, the skeleton was shown to him by the subjects of the ruler of the Khazar Kaganate. Two Russian classics, Turgenev and Korolenko, at one time in the museum of the Swiss city of Lucerne also saw a skeleton of such growth. According to them, the bones were found in the cave in 1577 by the physician Felix Plater.
The Russian chronicle says that in 1380 in the Battle of Kulikovo a four-meter giant fought on the side of the Mongol-Tatars, but the Russian heroes, led by Oslyabey, defeated him. According to Grinevsky, there are huge footprints on Earth, the most famous of which is in South Africa. It was discovered at the beginning of the 20th century by the owner of a local farm, Stofel Ketzi. It is believed to be the "left footprint". It was left in an almost vertical rock and is 12 cm deep. Its length is 1.28 meters. The footprint is believed to belong to a person about 10 meters tall. Hundreds of millions of years ago, when the giant came there, the rock layer was still soft. Subsequently, the rock froze and, due to geological processes, stood upright. The scientist believes that the footprint is just like a human, but there is no conclusive evidence. Such a trace could have remained from a stone that later fell out, or perhaps it is a dinosaur footprint.
Grinevsky is convinced that there is not a single museum in the world where the bones of a giant are exhibited. However, the author of the once sensational book "FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY" historian Michael Baigent supports the point of view that evidence of the existence of giants would raise doubts among scientists about the correctness of the now generally accepted theory of human origin, and some people, in order to prevent the refutation of evolutionary theory, hid the skeletons of giants and other rare items.
There are too many recorded reports of the finds of the remains of giants. There are so many that the explanation of this phenomenon by a simple "duck" seems completely unconvincing.
Here is a partial list of the mysterious finds:
In 1821, in the United States, in the state of Tennessee, the ruins of an ancient stone wall were found, and under it 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 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.
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In 1885, in Gasterville, Pennsylvania, a stone crypt was discovered in a large burial mound containing 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 were sharply different 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 a mummified woman during her lifetime was two meters, and a man's was about three meters.
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 mega-anthropuses. 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 between 4 and 9 kilograms. An anthropological expedition, which specially investigated the area in 1985 for the presence of the remains of meganthropuses,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 with a height of 67 and a width of 42 millimeters. 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, local residents 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 person six meters tall.
Near Malgoa, three huge footprints were found 60 centimeters long, 17 - wide. The giant's step 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 footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these footprints 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.
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 Evrek. 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 leg 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. 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 on the territory of Poland during the burial of those shot, a fossil skull 55 centimeters high was found, 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.
Ivan T. Sanderson, a famous zoologist and frequent guest of 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 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 force the heads to take on an elongated shape as they grew, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, like the skulls, were three times larger than that 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 quite reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and 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 localities, the stories here cannot be easily dismissed.
Thus, in the course of the scientific and practical expedition held in 2011, a number of evidences were collected, from which it followed that people with a height of 2 meters or more inhabited some regions of Armenia. Artsrun Hovsepyan, director of the Goshavank historical complex, said that in 1996, when building a road through the hills, bones were found so large that when they were applied to themselves, they reached the level of the throat. Komitas Aleksanyan, a resident of the village of Ava, says that the locals found skulls and leg bones of very large sizes, almost the size of a person. According to him: "Once it was last fall (2010) and 2 years ago (2009), on the territory of our village, where the grave of St. Barbara is located."
Ruben Mnatsakanyan 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 in front of me no closer than 2 meters. That was its size. The lower leg was approximately 1 m 15 cm. This bone was also not easy."
In 1984, a new plant was under construction near the city of Sisian. Tractors were digging the foundation. Suddenly one of them, throwing away a layer of earth, stopped. An ancient burial was opened before observers, where the remains of a very large man lay. The burial, in which the second giant lay, was littered with huge stones on top. Up to the middle of the ribs, the skeleton was covered with earth, along the body was a sword, with both hands he held its hilt, which was made of bone. Before that, I thought that giants lived in time immemorial. Maybe 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 from iron, said Ruben Mnatsakanyan.
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 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. Precisely, of course, I will not name their height, but more than 2 meters. Because the tibia or hip bone that I found when I applied it to my leg was much longer.”
Movses Khorenatsi (a representative of the 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 opened.
Vazgen Gevorgyan: “The entire population of the Khot village talks about the skeletons of giants found there. In particular, Razmik Arakelyan saw the graves of two giants during excavation work many years ago. The headman of the village also told about this, to whom his father showed the exact place. Everyone who saw was very surprised at what huge people once lived here. There apparently was their cemetery."
In the neighboring village of Tanzatap, there are also witnesses who talked about giant bones - the shin bone reached the waist of the tallest one. This happened in 1986 when they made terraces for fruit trees. Tractors dug up the mountainside many meters deep. Thanks to this, very ancient layers became available. The tractor bucket demolished the bottom plate, and then the burial itself was opened, from which the bone of a real giant was removed. Mikhail Hambartsumyan, at that time personally supervised the work.
Mikhail Hambartsumyan, the former head of the village: “I saw that a small hole was 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 pit, but it was too deep, and it was already dark, we couldn't see. So they left it. Then in the same pit I found a crucian, that is, a huge jug, but, unfortunately, when I tried to pull it out, it crashed. The carp reached a height of about 2 meters."
In addition, there is folklore that never arises from scratch. In the legends, myths and legends of absolutely all peoples, memories of the race of giants have been preserved. And the people say that "there is no smoke without fire." Not only in Russian there is such a saying, the British say: - "There is no fire without smoke". In Latin it sounds like "I Flamrnafutno estproximo" - "Flame follows smoke."