Giant skeletons of giant people. Giant people. Myths and reality

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 tens of thousands of gigantic human remains 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 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. ; 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 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 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,” 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.

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 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 found fragments of the 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 huge 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 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 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 " 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 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 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. 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 man. 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 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 do not stop to discover the last refuges of our distant ancestors or traces of their economic activity.

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.

Artsrun Hovsepyan, Director historical complex Goshavank 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 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.

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 elder of the village also told about this, to whom his father showed exact location. 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.

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.

Finds of human skeletons significantly exceeding the size that can be imagined modern science does not 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"?

In the 20th century, huge cone-shaped mounds, similar to burial mounds, were found in the forests of Western Missouri. During excavations, scientists discovered the remains of two skeletons, the bones of which were incredibly huge - they were three times the size of an average person. The head had huge jaws, the forehead was wide, set very low, the bones of the limbs were extremely large. The remains of the creature resembled human ones, but these people seemed just giants.

In Afghanistan, in the city of Bamiyan, there are 5 stone colossi, each of which depicts representatives of different civilizations that lived on Earth.

The most tall statue- 52 meters - immortalized the memory of the First Civilization - the first race that has existed since the birth of the Earth. The second statue, smaller (36 meters), introduced the Second Race. The third (18 meters) - with the Third race, which disappeared, leaving only legends and statues of the Fourth and Fifth races.

In the ancient Book of Enoch It is written that the giants are the gods who descended from heaven, becoming people.

Who and for what purpose made these statues is still unknown. Maybe it was the giants of the Fourth Race, which tragically died along with Atlantis.

The Aztecs explained the existence and disappearance of races by global catastrophes on Earth.

The legends of the Incas tell that giants sailed to them on huge rafts. They were higher ordinary people five times that time, they had very big eyes, long black hair, they shaved their beards. The giants were evil, cruel, they killed everyone in their path.

Apparently, it was they who were the owners of huge axes 1.5 meters long and weighing up to 200 kg, found during excavations. The age of the miracle finds was 40 million years.

According to legend, the giants possessed superhuman strength, capable of walking hundreds of kilometers in a day, and killed elephants with their bare hands. The giants easily brought their prey (hippos, bulls, elephants) to the settlement.

The expedition of Magellan (XV century), which sailed past Patagonia, made an entry in its diary about a four-meter giant sitting on the shore and watching the ship. The team, seized with fear, did not dare to go ashore.

Recently, stories and legends about huge people have received another confirmation. Footprints 1.5 meters long and 90 cm wide were discovered in South Africa. This footprint seemed to have been pressed into the rock as much as 20 cm. A similar footprint was also found on the island of Ceylon. Scientists believe that the growth of the owner of such a trace should be at least 10 meters!

Giants also lived on the territory, as evidenced by the entries in the diaries of Arab travelers who visited the country on a diplomatic mission in the 12th century. At the same time, a cannibal giant was killed, who lived in the forest and hunted people. The cannibal managed to destroy more than one hundred people until he was caught. Even chained to a thick tree, the giant tried to grab the victim. Evil, cruel, he appeared from nowhere, sowing death to all living things.

About similar cannibal giants wrote in the III century BC the Babylonian historian Berossus. The people of giants died during the flood. A few giants survived, who were lucky enough to survive, hiding on the tops of mountains, in caves. Eating human flesh, they forgot the gods, and therefore were punished. Giants lived in prehistoric times, coexisting with dinosaurs. This is evidenced by a unique find: in the XX century. on the territory of Siberia, the bones of a dinosaur were found, which was killed by a huge arrow.

In Turkmenistan, two footprints were found: a footprint of a sixty-centimeter human foot, and next to it, a footprint of a dinosaur paw. The find is 150 million years old!

Of course, people, frightened by encounters with giants, composed fairy tales and legends about them. Their images can be found in underground caves, and on the slopes. The most famous of them are in. In Sussex "drawn" in chalk 70 meter giant, and in Corset County - 50 meters.

These figures can only be seen from an airplane or from space. How could our ancestors draw such a miracle? The white contour of the giant against the background of green grass led scientists to put forward a hypothesis about the extraterrestrial origin of this phenomenon.

But in the 21st century, scientists found in the mountains tribe of giants up to three meters tall, unusually strong and ferocious, who caught Indians who served as toys for their children. The children of the giants could easily tear off an arm or leg to the "toy", or they could bite off a piece. The road to the plateau is very difficult to access, so all this still helps the giants to hide from civilization.

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The mystery of the giant's grave

Giant people. Do you think this is a myth or reality? In the article, we will analyze the findings and compare the facts, which will help to solve this mystery or get very close to the result.

The existence of giants is evidenced by finds of bones of unusual sizes around the world, as well as myths and legends, living mainly among the American Indians. Scientists, however, have never paid due attention to the collection and analysis of this evidence. Probably because they considered the existence of giants impossible.

The book of Genesis (chapter 6, verse 4) says:“At that time there were giants on earth, especially since the time when the sons of God began to enter into the daughters of men, and they began to give birth to them. These are strong, glorious people from ancient times.”

Goliath

The most famous among the giants described in the Bible is the warrior Goliath of Gath. The book of Samuel says that Goliath was defeated by the shepherd of sheep, David, who later became the king of Israel. Goliath, according to the biblical description, had a height of more than six cubits, that is, three meters.

His military equipment weighed about 420 kg, and the weight of the metal spear reached 50 kg. There are many stories among the people about giants who were afraid of rulers and leaders. Greek mythology tells of Enceladus, a giant who fought Zeus and was struck by lightning and covered by Mount Etna.

In the fourteenth century in Trapani (Sicily) was discovered the skeleton of the alleged Polyphemus, the one-eyed king of the Cyclopes, 9 meters long.

The Delaware Indians say that in the old days east of the Mississippi there lived a giant people called the Alligewys who would not let them pass through their lands. declared war on them and, in the end, forced them to leave the area.

The Sioux Indians had a similar legend. In Minnesota, where they lived, a race of giants appeared, which, according to legend, they destroyed. The bones of the giants are probably still in this land.

Giant's footprint

On Mount Sri Pada in Sri Lanka there is a deep imprint of a man's foot giant size: it is 168 cm long and 75 cm wide! Legend says that this is the footprint of our ancestor - Adam.

The famous Chinese navigator Zheng He speaks about this find in the 16th century:

“There is a mountain on the island. It is so high that its peak reaches the clouds and on it one can see the only imprint of a man's foot. The depression in the rock reaches up to two chi, and the length of the foot is more than 8 chi. It is said here that this trace was left by the holy A-Tang, the forefather of mankind.”

Giants of different countries

In 1577, huge human bones were found in Lucerne. The authorities quickly convened scientists who, working under the guidance of the famous anatomist Dr. Felix Plater from Basel, determined that these were the remains of a man 5.8 meters tall!

36 years later, France discovered its own giant. His remains were found in a grotto near Chaumont Castle. This man was 7.6 meters tall! The Gothic inscription "Tentobochtus Rex" was found in the cave, as well as coins and medals, which make it possible to believe that the skeleton of the Cimbri king was discovered.

Europeans who began to study South America, also talked about people of great stature. South part Argentina and Chile was named Patagonia by Magellan from the Spanish "pata" - hoof, because traces resembling large hooves were found there.

In 1520 Magellan's expedition encountered in Port San Julian with a giant, whose appearance was recorded in the magazine: "This man was so tall that we only got him to the waist, and his voice sounded like a bull's roar." Magellan's men probably even managed to capture two giants who, chained on deck, did not survive the journey. But because their bodies stank terribly, they were thrown overboard.

British explorer Francis Drake claimed that in 1578 he South America got into a fight with giants, whose height was 2.8 meters. Drake lost two men in this battle.

More and more researchers met their giants and the number of papers on the subject grew.

In 1592, Anthony Quinet summed up that the growth of famous giants is, on average, 3-3.5 meters.

Giant Man - Myth or Reality?

When, however, Charles Darwin arrived in the 19th century in Patagonia, did not find a trace of the giants. Earlier information was discarded, as it was considered greatly exaggerated. But stories of giants continued to come from other regions.

The Incas claimed, What people are giants descend from the clouds at regular intervals to live with their women.

It is often difficult to tell the difference between very tall man and a giant. For a pygmy, a person with a height of 180 cm is probably a giant. However, anyone who is over two meters tall should be classified as a giant.

That's exactly what it was Irishman Patrick Cotter. He was born in 1760 and died in 1806. He was known for his height and made a living performing in circuses and fairs. His height was 2 meters 56 centimeters.

At the same time, he lived in the USA Paul Bunyan - Lumberjack about which there are many legends. According to them, he kept moose as pets, and when he was once attacked by a buffalo, he easily twisted his neck. Contemporaries claimed that Banyan's height was 2.8 meters.

There is also a very interesting document in the English archives, namely the History and Antiquities of Allerdale. This work is a collection of folk songs, legends and stories about the Cumberland and tells, in particular, about the discovery in the Middle Ages of remains of enormous size:

“The giant was buried at a depth of 4 meters in what is now agricultural land, and the grave was marked with a vertically set stone. The skeleton was 4.5 meters long and was fully armed. The dead man's sword and ax lay beside him. The sword was over 2 meters long and 45 centimeters wide.”

IN Northern Ireland there are 40,000 closely spaced and driven into the ground conical pillars with convex and concave ends, which are considered natural formations. Old legends say, however, that these are the remains of a colossal bridge that connected Ireland and Scotland.

In the spring of 1969, excavations were carried out in Italy and 50 brick-lined coffins were discovered nine kilometers south of Rome. There were no names or other inscriptions on them. All of them contained the skeletons of men from 200 to 230 cm tall. Very tall, especially for Italy.

Archaeologist Dr. Luigi Cabalucci said that people died at the age of 25-40. Their teeth were in remarkably good condition. Unfortunately, the date of the burial and the circumstances under which it took place have not been established.

Where do giants come from

So, the number of finds increased, and in different countries. But the most intriguing question is “where do people are giants' remains unanswered.

French writer Denis Sora has formulated a fascinating version. Thinking about what might happen if some other celestial body began to approach the Earth, he came to the conclusion that the effect of such an event would be a sharp increase in the gravity of our planet.

The tides would be stronger, which means land flooding. Another, less well-known consequence of this state of affairs would be the gigantism of plants, animals, and humans. The latter would reach a height of 5 meters. According to this theory, the size of living organisms increases along with the growth of radiation, in this case cosmic.

“The increase in radiation, including cosmic radiation, probably has two effects: it causes mutations and damages or transforms tissues. Some illustration of the theory and the effects of radiation on growth can be seen in the events of 1902 in Martinique, where Mount Pele erupted, killing 20,000 people in St. Pierre.

Immediately before the start of the eruption, a purple cloud formed over the crater of the volcano, consisting of dense gas and water vapor. It grew to an unprecedented size and spread throughout the island, whose inhabitants were not yet aware of the threat.

Suddenly, a 1,300-foot-high column of fire erupted from the volcano. A cloud that burned at a temperature above 1000 degrees also took up from the fire. All the inhabitants of St. Pierre died, with the exception of one who was sitting in a prison cell protected by thick walls.

The ruined city was never rebuilt, but the island's biological life revived faster than expected. The plants returned and, but they were all much larger now. Dogs, cats, turtles, lizards and insects were larger than ever before, and each successive generation was taller than the last."

The French authorities placed a scientific station at the foot of the mountain and soon discovered that the mutations in animals and plants were the result of radiation from minerals thrown out during a volcanic eruption.

This radiation also affected people: the head of the research center, Dr. Jules Gravue, grew by 12.5 cm, and his assistant, Dr. Powen, by 10 cm. It was found that the irradiated plants grew three times faster and reached the level of development in six months, which, under normal circumstances, would take two years.

The lizard, called the copa, which had previously reached 20 cm in length, turned into a small dragon 50 cm long, and its bite, previously harmless, became more dangerous than the poison of a cobra.

The strange phenomenon of anomalous growth disappeared when these plants and animals were brought from Martinique. On the island itself, the apogee of radiation was reached within 6 months after the explosion, and then its intensity slowly began to return to normal levels.

Is it possible that something similar (perhaps on a larger scale) happened once in the past? Increased doses of radiation could contribute to the formation of abnormally large organisms. This theory finds some support in the fact that huge animals existed on Earth long after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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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. Reports of skulls or bones found anomalously large sizes came from different parts of the world - 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 US state In Nevada, guano mining was suspended, as scientists were interested in the found human skeletons with a growth 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.

Assuming that the elbow Arab traveler was of modest size, then the growth of the giant was in no way lower than 4 meters.
Interestingly, Fodlan's story 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

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 be megalithic buildings We can find them on different 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!

Between supporters and opponents of the existence of meganthropes in Lately a serious controversy unfolded, 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.

Backlash scientific community cause cases of outright falsification. So, the “skeleton of the giant Teutoboch” - the king of the Cimbri, who stood for several centuries in the French Museum natural history turned out to be a forgery 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 as follows: weak gravity, low atmospheric pressure and high oxygen content 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. 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,” the scientist says, “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 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.

And historical chronicles of the 19th century often report finds in different corners the globe skeletons of people of abnormally high growth.

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.

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