Legends and traditions about the giants who lived in antiquity have survived to this day. At first glance, so what's so special about it? How many fairy tales were invented by our ancestors. But here's the strange thing, these tales in recent times find more and more evidence.
Information periodically appears in the media about strange and mysterious finds by archaeologists - giant skeletons of people. If they really lived in ancient times on Earth, then the entire existing scientific picture of the world and the history of the development of mankind can be considered incomplete or even false. Giant people: fact or fiction?
In 2007, the Internet was literally blown up by a sensational message and photographs of skeletons of 12-meter giant people found in India, whose age was several thousand years. The credibility of this report was given by the reference to the participation in the excavations of the archaeological group of the National Geographic Society of India.
But, after some time, it turned out that the photographs documenting the sensational find were forged using Photoshop. Of course, one could calm down on this and say, well, another modern fiction has been exposed. But in fact, everything is not so simple.
American researcher and paleontologist Michael Kremo in the book "The Unknown History of Mankind" cites a lot of evidence that seriously contradicts the established theory of human development. These data are usually hushed up, they do not pass the so-called "knowledge filter", which filters out everything that does not fit into the existing picture of the world. Consider the available facts confirming the existence of the ancient giants. Archaeological finds: giant mummies and skeletons of giants
Here are just a few facts of the finds of archaeologists, the authenticity of which could not be refuted. In 1890, a huge sarcophagus was found in Egypt, in which there was a mummy of a 3-meter red-haired woman with a child. This find was dated to the 2nd millennium BC.
The appearance of a woman was very different from the appearance of the ancient Egyptians. In 1911, in the state of Nevada (USA), mummies of huge red-haired people were found, their height ranged from 2.5 to 3 meters. Also in the state of Nevada in 1877, gold miners found human bones leg, foot and kneecap. Based on the size of the remains, the height of a person was 3.5 meters. But this is not the most surprising, the fossilized remains of the giant were embedded in quartzite, whose age was 185 million years, and this was the era of dinosaurs.
Skeletons of giants were found in the Caucasus, China, Central Africa, North and South America, European countries. Sometimes these finds surprised not only by their gigantic size. So, for example, in 1936, the German paleontologist Lars Kohl found the skeletons of people whose height was 3.5-3.75 meters. They were found in Central Africa near Lake Elizi. The most surprising thing was that these people had two rows of upper and lower teeth and very sloping chins.
Australia did not stand aside either, on the territory of this farthest continent, not only quite a few remains of giants were found, but also their huge tools. In 1985, a fossilized molar tooth was found there, the height of which was 6.7 cm, the width was 4.2 cm. The growth of the owner of the tooth was supposed to be 7.5 meters, and radiocarbon analysis data determined its age, which was 9 million years.
This is not a complete list of mysterious finds. Who are these people? Ancient Lemurians, Atlanteans, or even a race of people completely unknown to us? Is there any way to explain their gigantic growth? There is a rather interesting explanation for this phenomenon. True, accepting it, one must also recognize the incomparably longer existence of people on Earth than is accepted by official science.
Analyzing the composition of air inclusions in pieces of amber, scientists came to the conclusion that in the era of dinosaurs there was incomparably more oxygen in the air than now. This composition of the atmosphere caused the intensive growth of plants and animals - all who inhabited ancient earth. There is a hypothesis that then, along with giant dinosaurs, giant people also existed. Giants in legends and myths
Legends of giants are present in the mythology of many peoples. Everyone knows the epic hero-giant Svyatogor. The Indian epic "Ramayana" describes its heroes as giants: Rama's height was 3 meters, Hanuman - 8 meters, and their enemies, the Rakshasa demons, are described as 15-meter hulks. The ancient Greeks have legends about one-eyed giants-cyclops, one of them - Polyphemus is mentioned in Homer's Odyssey.
Of course, these are all the heroes of fairy tales. However, modern researchers have a point of view that the authors of these ancient legends were very concrete-minded individuals, not inclined to literary genres in the "fantasy" style. They described everything as they saw it, perhaps exaggerating a little. There is evidence of the existence of a race of giants from less distant eras. Legends about the giant Dzhepir, who lived there relatively recently, in the 17th century, have been preserved in Georgia. Even his gigantic grave has been preserved.
E.P. Blavatsky, in describing the ancient races of Lemurians and Atlanteans in The Secret Doctrine, emphasizes their gigantic stature. The inhabitants of Tibet have the same traditions. Similar information can be found even among ancient Greek historians. So Theopompus, who lived in the IV century BC. e., spoke of a race of Meropian giants who lived on a large island located in Atlantic Ocean. So our mysterious and unpredictable world revealed another secret. Will humanity want to abandon such a familiar picture of the world and admit that in fact we know almost nothing about our origin and our ancestors.
Official science is still distrustful of hypotheses about the existence of gigantic people in the past. However, numerous studies by enthusiasts may well change the usual picture of the history of mankind.
Mysterious remains
Traces of the existence of giant people have been discovered repeatedly over the centuries. Messages about 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 islands Pacific Ocean. True, now you will not surprise anyone with a human height of over two meters. As photographs show, in the 19th century there were people whose height significantly exceeded two meters.
However, we are talking about finds by 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 full skeletons: its size was at least three times the jaw of an average person.
During the extraction 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 striking find was discovered by the Indian military. Found in a remote area 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 giant people is contained in almost all known ancient texts - the Torah, the Bible, the Koran, the 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 the present, to a tall and trampling people, whose land is cut by rivers."
But similar information is also found in later sources claiming historical authenticity. 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 growth in him, measuring twelve cubits with my elbow. And now he has a head - the biggest cauldron that ever happens. And the nose is more than a quarter, both eyes are huge, and the fingers are each more than a quarter.
If we assume that the elbow of the Arab traveler was modest in 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 in late XVIII century by Russian explorers of the Volga basin.
stone artifacts
Silent witnesses of the existence of giant people can be traces of their material culture. During excavations in Australia near the gigantic remains, impressive stone tools were found - 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 US Historical Society, a bronze ax is exhibited, the height of which exceeds 1 meter, and the length of the blade is half a meter. The weight of the find is 150 kilograms. A modern athlete would hardly have mastered such a tool.
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. Of particular interest to scientists is the Lebanese Baalbek, which can only be called a city of giants. At least, researchers still cannot scientifically explain the appearance of stone slabs perfectly fitted to each other, weighing up to 800 tons each.
Fake!
A serious controversy has recently unfolded between supporters and opponents of the existence of meganthropes, which does not accept compromises. So the anthropologist Maria Mednikova calls the information about the discovery of the bones of four-meter people an ordinary fake.
“From a formal point of view,” the scientist says, “it is not confirmed by documented archaeological excavations, there are no conclusions of specialists - anthropologists or forensic doctors - who could reasonably state what these bones are like.
Cases of outright falsification also cause a negative reaction from the scientific community. Thus, the "skeleton of the giant Teutoboch" - 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 the bones of a mastodon. Revelations of modern finds are not uncommon when carefully examined, they turn out to be the remains of large mammals. Also, the “defenders of the giants” are discredited by the cases of photoshop that have become noticeably more frequent recently.
Habitat
The weak point of the theory of meganthropes is the current terrestrial 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 have survived for purely biological reasons.
As confirmation of this, they cite as an example 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 gravity was lower and oxygen levels were about 50% higher.
The last figure is confirmed by the analysis of air bubbles "locked" in amber. Moreover, modern physicists have simulated conditions in which the force of gravity has become an order of magnitude lower than it is now. The conclusions are: weak gravity, low atmospheric pressure and high content oxygen 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 of the machines of giant people is dated to millions of years, and during this time even the bones turn to dust, unless, of course, they are petrified.
"Borjomi Giants"
However, perhaps the giants lived not so long ago. The 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 findings, in his opinion, could be sensational. “Pay attention to the femur,” says the scientist, “it is different from the bone modern man 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. AT scientific literature they are referred to as giants, but there was no documentary evidence for this hypothesis. Thus, we stand on the threshold of a sensation. But this will be preceded by painstaking work.
The Bible, the Vedas and the myths of various peoples mention the race of giants who once inhabited our planet. In ancient legends it is said that these were Atlantean giants who relied on their physical strength and challenged higher beings or God. For which the heavens punished this race, wiping it off the face of the Earth. Many "grammatists" who wish to interpret sacred texts literally have been constantly looking for evidence for these quotations. From time to time, people came across huge vertebrae or fragments of other large remains. These findings gave food for speculation, as if these were giant skeletons of people.
The adherents of the extraterrestrial (alien) hypothesis also made their contribution. But the pseudo-scientific publications, from time to time posting articles about supposedly sensational discoveries, fueled the public's interest in the ancient giants even more. In order not to be considered unfounded, they also published pictures from the find site, which clearly show the skeletons of giant people. The photos showed the resting remains of a well-preserved giant, and next to him were small figures of archaeologists. Based on the average height of modern people, looking at such a picture, one can easily imagine the growth of the deceased - about 20 meters.
However, there is a strange trend. Despite the various regions in which the finds of the skeletons of giant people were allegedly made - India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Greece, South Africa, Portugal and Kenya all followed the same pattern. The remains were stumbled upon by chance, during geological exploration or when laying roads. Immediately, the military came to the excavation site, cordoned off the region and hid the find from the eyes of the general public. And because in the hands of scientists there was no other evidence, except for a picture taken from a helicopter.
At the same time, both articles and photos allegedly confirming the finds multiplied. The giants were either three meters, then eight, then a record 24. In addition, as if there were not enough photographs, clay tablets began to be found at the burial site - sometimes in Sanskrit, then in Arabic - that the giants belong to one or another mentioned in Vedas or Bible. The inscriptions, of course, were also confiscated by the evil military, for some reason interested in hiding the historical truth.
Finally national geographic in 2007, conducted its own investigation of one of the pictures. It turned out that the background for the excavations, during which giant human skeletons were found, was archaeological expedition Cornell University. However, in fact, in the town of Hyde Park, New York State, on September 16, 2000, scientists did not find the remains of an ancient giant, but fragments of the skeleton ... of a mastodon that lived 13 thousand years ago.
Soon the author of the "sensational picture" was also discovered. It turned out to be a certain Iron Kite. Moreover, this person did not want to mislead anyone at all. He simply submitted his photomontage to a graphic design competition run by one of the sites. Moreover, he even received an award there - third place. A variety of Photoshop masters took part in the competition, who presented their works to the jury - from frankly funny to such “almost serious” ones. In 2007, the National Geographic Society issued a statement that no remains of giants have been found, that giant human skeletons are a myth and falsification of esotericists.
Smithsonian Institution (a research and educational institute founded by the US Congress and its museum complex) admitted to destroying 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 gigantic human remains in the tens of thousands were found across America and destroyed on the orders of high-ranking officials for defending the prevailing theory of human evolution according to Darwin.
Suspicions from the American Institute for Alternative Archeology (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. ; approx. mixednews), the existence of which traditional archeology, for various reasons, does not want to recognize.
The turning point in the case was the demonstration of a human femur 1.3 meters long as evidence of the existence of such gigantic 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 that 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 “the destruction of evidence relating to pre-European culture” and items “related to larger than normal human skeletons.”
“The publication of these documents will help archaeologists and historians to reconsider modern theories about human evolution and help us better understand the pre-European culture of America and the rest of the world,” says AIAA director Hans Guttenberg.
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 facial features and build 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. 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 sediments, there were stone artifacts of enormous weight and size - clubs, plows , chisels, knives and axes. Modern Homo sapiens I 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 megantropus, 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 sticking out above the surface of the stream, on which one could see the imprint of a 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.
Three huge footprints 60 centimeters long and 17 wide were found near Malgoa. 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 stored 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 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.
Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on the popular 1960s American show Tonight, 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. 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.
AT 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 not quite reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in South-East 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 find the last refuges of our distant ancestors or traces of their economic activity do not stop.
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 or more meters tall, inhabited some regions of Armenia.
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 very large sizes, almost per 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 big man. 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.
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 they built a monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. 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 of 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.
The quoted film "City of Giants" is also associated with a scandal, so leading Researcher Institute of Archeology RAS, 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.
Finds of human skeletons significantly exceeding the size that can be imagined modern science does not yet mean that it was a whole race, it may be more correct to talk only about some of its representatives, endowed with divine properties during their lifetime, and buried in special stone burials with greater honors than their compatriots, who were not touched by the hand of all genetic advantages of the "alpine type"?
Here is some information that recently appeared on the Internet: The Smithsonian Institution admitted to destroying 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 gigantic human remains in the tens of thousands 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 Archeology (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.
Let's find out more about this...
But first, let's define this topic: yes, you are right, the photo in the post is 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 gigantic 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” and items “related to larger than normal 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 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 the globe skeletons of people of abnormally high growth.
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 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 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 facial features and build 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. 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.
An anthropological expedition, which specifically investigated the area in 1985 for the presence of the remains of megantropus, 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 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 stored 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.
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 well-known zoologist and frequent guest on the popular 1960s American show Tonight, 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 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 find the last refuges of our distant ancestors or traces of their economic activity do not stop.
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 or more meters tall, inhabited some regions of Armenia.
Artsrun Hovsepyan, the 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 the locals 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 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 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- The 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 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(a 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. 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 of 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, a 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 geographical 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 that were mentioned in the Mahabharata (Mahabharata) - an Indian epic of 200 BC.
The journal's editor, one P. Deivamuthu, later 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.
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 a real excavation. 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.
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