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 and very low, and the bones of the limbs were extremely large. The remains of the creature resembled human ones, but these people seemed simply 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 - perpetuated the memory of the First Civilization - the first race that 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 as memories.

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

Who made these statues and for what purpose is still unknown. Maybe these were 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.

Inca legends say that giants sailed to them on huge rafts. They were five times taller than ordinary people of that time, they had very large eyes, long black hair, and they shaved their beards. The giants were evil, cruel, they killed everyone on their way.

Apparently, they 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 legends, the giants had 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.

Magellan's expedition (15th century), which sailed past Patagonia, wrote in its diary about a four-meter giant sitting on the shore and watching the ship. The crew, gripped by fear, did not dare to go ashore.

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

Giants also lived on the territory, as evidenced by 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 who lived in the forest and hunted people was killed. The cannibal managed to destroy more than one hundred people before he was caught. Even chained to a thick tree, the giant tried to grab his victim. Evil, cruel, he appeared from nowhere, spreading death to all living things.

About similar cannibal giants wrote the Babylonian historian Berossus in the 3rd century BC. The people of the giants died during the flood. There were a few giants left alive 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 20th century. In Siberia, the bones of a dinosaur were found that was killed by a huge arrow.

Two footprints were discovered in Turkmenistan: a sixty-centimeter human foot print, and next to it a dinosaur paw print. The age of the find is 150 million years!

Of course, people, frightened by encounters with giants, composed fairy tales and legends about them. Their images can also be found in underground caves, and on the slopes. The most famous of them are located in. In Sussex "drawn" with 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 paint such a miracle? The white outline of the giant against the background of green grass forced scientists to hypothesize 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. Children of giants could easily tear off an arm or leg of the “toy”, or they could even bite off a piece. The road to the plateau is very difficult to access, so all this still helps the giants hide from civilization.

Who are they - descendants of Gigantopithecus or guests from other planets who accidentally ended up on Earth?

Scientists report results of studies on the health effects of genetically modified crops
person. It turned out that these crops caused a disease unknown to science. When the virus becomes active, it can turn on any DNA in our genome. Most often this is a growth gene. People who consume modified foods grow to 2 meters or more. It seems that soon the entire population of the Earth will become a people of giants, as it was many centuries ago.

In 1985, cosmonauts, staying at the Salyut-7 orbital station, watched creatures through the windows giant size, who approached the station and accompanied it for several minutes. Who were these angels?

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Giant skeletons and not only...

Descriptions of giants can be found not only in the legends of Australia, Belgium, Chad, Chile, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nova Scotia, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda , Russia, Scotland, Sicily, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Zanzibar, but also in historical chronicles of the 19th century, which often report finds in different parts globe skeletons of abnormally tall people.

I must say that this photograph is one of the few genuine ones, compared to the number of fakes and outright falsifications that circulate on the Internet, and which you have probably seen. Where truth and lies are sometimes difficult to distinguish - Photoshop is not difficult to use, and the result can be very believable. However, even before the invention of this wonderful program of fakes of this kind

enough was sculpted. As if someone set out to deliberately make them in order to “expose” them on occasion. A simple technique for hiding information, which is now widely used, and allows the recipient to accept helpfully and unobtrusively, and usually anonymously, a half-lie as the truth, and after “exposure” on this basis, completely discredit the truth in general, and even calling it a buzzword “ freaking out,” which became a label. Treat the recipient in this way, throwing out the “carrot”, ridicule him, making him a “patient” so that he no longer stutters.

There are few material artifacts left by the “true man” (Nam Lu U, as the Sumerians called him). But they exist. Archaeologists regularly unearth huge bones and skulls.

But on the website http://lah.ru I read an interesting story, illustrated with photographs and documents, of how archaeologists bury giant human bones they had just excavated. Obviously, in archeology there is an “unformatted” one, and one of the high-ranking “colleagues” can always say “get out of the profession.” There is a crisis of the genre, however. Everyone wants to eat.

Fifteen or twenty years ago I had the opportunity to read an article, the epigraph of which I remembered something like this - “. .and people will marvel at the huge bones of our ancestors“- it, among other things, mentioned a 20-meter human skeleton kept in the Vatican. It was brought from America by the Spaniards, who believed that they had found the remains of Adam. There were also photographs. I started searching on the Internet - I didn’t find anything worthy of a link - there is a mention, yes, but always with an addition, like “allegedly”. But hardly anyone would doubt that there are many skeletons in the Vatican's closets.

The missionaries who accompanied the conquistadors sent a lot of things to Rome. Most of the messages and manuscripts written during their activities in America turned into “closed literature”, ex-files. But the artifacts have not yet become the property of historians and scientists - perhaps there are some good reasons. Access to the Vatican vaults is closed to uninitiated lay people.

Although historians are now so crazy that they write not about what once happened, but fantasy stories, and they write what they pay for. There is a lot of indirect information that some archaeological research centers began to hide the information they obtained about ancient peoples and finds. The bone-skulls, of course, are not the most important thing - more interesting are the artifacts obtained along the way and the knowledge that those who became the bones possessed. In general, as they write, “if something is known to such groups of researchers as the Chicago Society, then there is nothing there for the world community to catch.”

It should be noted that not only the bones of the “true man” are destroyed and buried, but even sculptures of giants, if the “world community” is not particularly aware of them. For example: 180 kilometers from Victorias on the Pacific coast of Guatemala in the 50s they discovered giant statue, with uncharacteristic local population facial features rooted in the ground. The photo ended up in the local press. And even some of the scientists came then.

But attempts to photograph the sculpture 50 years later ended in failure. All that awaited the researchers was a pile of debris. They explained that the revolutionaries destroyed it. Why did the revolutionaries need this? The statue stood for who knows how long, it grew into the ground, did not bother anyone, and no one saw it “somewhere in the jungle of Guatemala” - the revolutionaries came, cutting down the vines, and blew it up. Oh, these revolutionaries. I immediately remember the looters in the Iraqi Museum and the entertainment of Napoleon, who gave the order to fire cannons at the Sphinx. They didn’t destroy it, but they knocked off the nose and severely mutilated the face. How they took revenge for something.

Or suddenly, these revolutionary Taliban, for no apparent reason, destroyed a peacefully dozing statue giant buddha. Actually, there were 5 stone figures: one of normal height, another 6 meters, the third 18, the fourth 38 meters and the last 54 meters. This won't mean anything to anyone. Just think - they say, our ancestors had plenty of imagination, there was no TV, and there was nothing to do - so they practiced stone carving as best they could.

By the way, the further into antiquity, the more surprising the “gigantomania” of our ancestors is. Who needed it? What kind of pleasure is it to work granite almost with flint axes? And is this even possible? The precision of processing of the 800-ton Baalbek blocks is such that there are no gaps between them, and the surfaces are perfectly smooth. Historians who are “without a tower” claim that they were sawed by hand with copper saws. Yeah. On the other hand - what else can you say? What was it impossible to do then, and now it is very difficult? Yes, here they are, these stones - feel them. Believe that the stones themselves came and lay as needed with the help of magic? Well-developed technology is indistinguishable from magic. And magic is a well-developed technology. Know-how, that is, unlike those, he doesn’t know

There, 20 km from the Baalbek veranda, in a quarry lies a granite block 25 m long and weighing 1000 tons. For comparison, a standard freight car carries 60 tons of cargo. Note that the ruins of the Roman temple built on this ancient foundation are made of relatively modest stones. It’s the same in Egypt - the older the structure, the greater the weight of the “building material” and the more perfect it is in processing - and the larger the size of the buildings. We can only state that the antediluvian construction technologies of the period called “prehistoric” are sharply different and much more advanced than later ones. Degradation is clearly visible in the example of Egypt. Transportation and processing of multi-ton slabs, from which the miraculously preserved structures are made, was a common occurrence in ancient times. A number of Cyclopean structures tell us that they may have been a match for their builders. As they write, in Karnak, in one of the many halls of the palace, which is now ruins, and had one hundred and forty columns, the Cathedral could easily fit Notre Dame of Paris without reaching the ceiling.

All nations had legends about giants that came down to us in one form or another. Giants and titans, of course, with their growth should have had a corresponding life expectancy.
Among the Greeks, the titans who inhabited the Earth were forced to fight with the gods.
The giants Svyatogor, Usynya, Dobrynya, Gorynya among our ancestors. In Russian epics, unlike some other peoples, relations with giants developed peacefully and even friendly.
The Ossetian epic "Tales of the Narts" tells about the struggle of the Narts with the giants. They were called uaigi.
In the mythology of the American peoples, giants were the predecessors of those who created the first civilizations.
The Aztecs believed that the earth was inhabited by giants during the era of the First Sun. They called the ancient people "Kiname", believing that they erected giant pyramids.
We can find images of giants and legends about them in ancient Cambodia and China.
Clay tablets claim that the priests of Babylon received their knowledge from giant people who escaped the Holocaust. This means "flood", of course...
Few people don’t know about the Egyptian giants - their statues can still be seen today. Well, the gods - Seth and his sons, for example. Question. Have you ever wondered how, using, at best, copper tools, you can turn a 200-ton block of granite into a highly polished sculpture?

The Bible also writes about giants who inhabited our planet in the past.

Start over. The Lord places Adam in the Garden of Eden so that cultivate it and keep his(Gen. 2:15)

The Sumerian chronicles tell about the same thing - the True Man Nam-lu-u was created by the Life Designers of Kadishtu to monitor the animals of the planetary garden.

This begs the question, where was the Garden of Eden located? Paradise? What do we even know about Paradise? Have you ever thought about this? Wasn't the Earth this planetary garden?

« Were on earth at that time giants, especially from the time when the sons of God began to come in to the daughters of men, and they began to bear them: These are strong people who have been famous since ancient times.” Gen. 6:4.

C illustrious, glorious people from ancient times. Much like the Sumerians -Nam-Lu-U acted as guardians of the Earth before the arrival of the Anunnu.- Nam-lu-u is the combined supply of vitality, knowledge and genetics of the Life Designers. Nice people. In addition, they had the ability to move in space outside the body and in the body - to fly, levitate, telepathic abilities, and a third eye. And they were giants. The description is a little broader than in the Bible. Nam-Lu-U was called “immeasurable” beings. And about Adam, some sources write that his body extended from earth to heaven, i.e. was also “immeasurable.” And only with the Fall and expulsion from Ryan the Earth became smaller. Of course, the above should not be taken literally. But the Bible also contains quite certain numbers.

“Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, in his own image, and called his name Seth. The days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters. All the days of Adam’s life were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died."

The life of his closest descendants was just as long, but after mixing with the sons of God, it became shorter and shorter. People began to “degenerate.” (We will return to the issue of the sons of God later, in the next, 12th part). A certain part of the then-giant people in the Jewish tradition was called “Gibborim” (strong), and another “Rephaim” - the well-known Goliath was one of them.

In 1718, the French academic Henrion constructed a mathematical table based on studies of ancient measures and data from the Bible, thus tracing the evolution of human height. According to his calculations, Adam was about 40 m tall. Degeneration became evident already in the time of Noah, who was 33.37 m tall. The further, the worse: Abraham - only 9 m, Moses - 4 m. His conclusions are paradoxical - humanity would have to degenerate to the size of mice, if not for the coming of the Messiah.

Whether this is true or not, whether this is the reason, is difficult to say. In fact, the Earth was once inhabited by giants. Everyone has heard about dinosaurs and Gigantopithecus, but not so much about Meganthropes.

Obviously, this was the biosphere - favorable natural conditions, a high oxygen content in the atmosphere, ensuring a healthy metabolism, a low carbon dioxide content - the planet until a certain point, before the first Catastrophe, was covered with lush, multi-tiered and gigantic vegetation. Well, the pressure should be higher. That's how it was - froze The pressure in air bubbles in amber showed 8 atmospheres, and the oxygen content was 38%. That's why the birds were gigantic - they had something to rest their wings on. Subsequently, the birds became sparrows, and the larger ones became ostriches and fat penguins. With such a density of the atmosphere, the air element was thoroughly mastered by life, and flight was a normal phenomenon. Everyone flew: both those who had wings and those who did not.

Many people have dreams in which they fly, perhaps this is subconscious déjà vu.

But let's go back to the Bible:

[Wisdom 14:6] For in the beginning, when the proud giants were destroyed, the hope of the world, guided by Your hand, resorted to the ship, and left the seed of the race for the world.
[Bar 3] 26 There were glorious giants there from the beginning, very great, skilled in war.
27 But God did not choose them, nor revealed to them the ways of wisdom;
28 And they perished because they had no wisdom; they perished because of their foolishness.
You once destroyed the workers of iniquity, among whom were giants who trusted in strength and boldness, and brought endless water upon them.

And after the flood:
33 And they spread a bad report about the land which they had spied among the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to spy is a land that devoureth the inhabitants of it, and all the people which we saw in its midst were great men;
34 There we also saw giants, the sons of Anak, from the giant family; and we were in our sight before them like locusts, so were we in their sight. (Num. 13:33,34)

Now let’s return again to that photograph of the supposed “nephilim.” It is not correct to decline the word "nephilim" - "nephilim" is a plural form. The word "nephilim" means "fallen." Fallen to Earth. And the Sumerian “Anunnaki” means “those who fell from Heaven.” One and the same thing, given the obvious continuity. But the “fallen angels” looked completely different. There is a detailed description of both the Nephilim and the Elohim in the Apocrypha of Enoch.

Giant people - ancient inhabitants of the Earth

Historical chronicles of the 19th century often report the discovery of skeletons of abnormally tall people in different parts of the globe.

Giant skeletons

In 1821, in the US state of 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 of “incredible thickness and size” were found, according to a newspaper article.

In 1883, several burial mounds were discovered in Utah containing the burials of very tall people - 195 centimeters, which is at least 30 centimeters higher than the average height of Aboriginal Indians. The latter did not make these burials and could not provide any information about them. In 1885, in Gasterville (Pennsylvania), a stone crypt was discovered in a large burial mound, in which there was a skeleton 215 centimeters high. Primitive images of people, birds and animals were carved on the walls of the crypt.

In 1899, miners in the Ruhr region of Germany discovered the fossilized skeletons of people ranging from 210 to 240 centimeters tall.

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 were sharply different from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of a man and a woman with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovelock (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The height of the mummified woman during life was two meters, and the man - about three meters.

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basarst in Australia, prospectors mining jasper often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. Anthropologists called the race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, megantropus. The height of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Megantropus are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were discovered in China. Judging by the found fragments of jaws and many teeth, the height of the Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and their 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 would hardly be able to work with tools weighing from 4 to 9 kilograms.

An anthropological expedition that specifically explored this area in 1985 for the presence of remains of Meganthropus, carried out excavations at a depth of up to three meters from the surface of the earth. Australian researchers found, among other things, a fossilized molar tooth 67 millimeters high and 42 millimeters wide. The owner of the tooth had to be at least 7.5 meters tall and weigh 370 kilograms! Hydrocarbon analysis determined the age of the finds to be nine million years.

In 1971, in Queensland, farmer Stephen Walker, while plowing his field, came across a large fragment of a jaw with teeth five centimeters high. In 1979 in Megalong Valley in Blue Mountains local residents They found a huge stone sticking out above the surface of the stream, on which could be seen the imprint of part of a huge foot with five toes. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 centimeters long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man six meters tall

Near Malgoa, three huge footprints were found, 60 centimeters long and 17 centimeters wide. The giant's stride length was measured at 130 centimeters. The footprints were preserved in fossilized lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Macleay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 centimeters long and the width of the foot is 25 centimeters. Obviously, the Aborigines of Australia were not the first inhabitants of the continent. Interestingly, their folklore contains 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 gigantic skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried four yards deep in the ground and is in full military garb. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters) long and the teeth " big man"measures 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)"

In 1877, near Ewreka, Nevada, prospectors were panning for gold in a deserted hilly area. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out over the cliff ledge. People climbed the rock and were surprised to find human bones of the foot and lower leg along with the kneecap. The bone was immured in the rock, and the miners used picks to free it from the rock. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers brought it to Evreka. The stone in which the rest of the leg was embedded was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which indicated their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of the knee joint and completely preserved bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and concluded 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 knee to 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 site in hopes of finding the remaining parts of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing more was discovered.

In 1936, German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shores of Lake Elizi in Central Africa. The 12 men buried in the mass grave had heights from 350 to 375 centimeters during their lifetime. It is curious that 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 those executed, a fossilized skull 55 centimeters high was found, that is, almost three times larger than that of a modern adult. The giant to whom the skull belonged had very proportional features and a height of at least 3.5 meters

Giant Skulls

Ivan T. Sanderson, a famous zoologist and frequent guest on the popular American show “Tonight” in the 60s, once shared with the public an interesting story about a letter he received from a certain Alan McShir. The author of the letter in 1950 worked as a bulldozer operator on the construction of a road in Alaska. He reported that workers discovered two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the burial mounds. The height of the skulls reached 58 cm and the width 30 centimeters. The 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 infants in order to force their heads to acquire an elongated shape as they grew, existed among some Indian tribes North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger in size than those of modern humans. The length of the shin 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 brow ridges were two strange protrusions that resembled small horns. Anthropologists who came into possession of the find determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.

There is not entirely reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in South-East Asia and on the islands of Oceania.

And historical chronicles of the 19th century often report the discovery of skeletons of abnormally tall people in different parts of the globe.

In 1899, miners in the Ruhr region of Germany discovered the fossilized skeletons of people ranging from 210 to 240 centimeters tall.

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basarst in Australia, prospectors mining jasper often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. Anthropologists called the race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, Meganthropus. The height of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Meganthropus is similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were discovered in China. Judging by the found fragments of jaws and many teeth, the height of the Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and their weight was 400 kilograms. Near Basarst, in the river sediments 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, local residents found a huge stone sticking out above the surface of a stream, on which could be seen the imprint of part of a huge foot with five toes. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 centimeters long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man six meters tall
Near Malgoa, three huge footprints were found, 60 centimeters long and 17 centimeters wide. The giant's stride length was measured at 130 centimeters. The footprints were preserved in fossilized lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Macleay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 centimeters long and the width of the foot is 25 centimeters. Obviously, the Aborigines of Australia were not the first inhabitants of the continent. Interestingly, their folklore contains 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 gigantic skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried four yards deep in the ground and is in full military garb. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters) long, and the "big man's" teeth measure 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)."

Giant Skulls

Ivan T. Sanderson, a famous zoologist and frequent guest on the popular American show “Tonight” in the 60s, once shared with the public an interesting story about a letter he received from a certain Alan McShir. The author of the letter in 1950 worked as a bulldozer operator on the construction of a road in Alaska. He reported that workers discovered two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the burial mounds. The height of the skulls reached 58 cm and the width 30 centimeters. The 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 infants in order to force their heads to acquire an elongated shape as they grew, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger in size than those of modern humans. The length of the shin bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.

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

October 24, 2013

Five meter skeleton

Children's fairy tales, legends, ancient books and manuscripts excite our imagination with descriptions of creatures of gigantic size. Large skeletons from archaeological excavations are indisputable evidence of the existence of giants.

People were described by ancient historians. Arabian traveler A thousand years ago, Ibn Fadlan spoke about a five-meter skeleton he saw among the subjects of the Khazar king.

Russian ancient chronicles tell about a four-meter giant warrior who stood up to defend the fatherland on the Kulikovo Field.

Russian writers Korolenko and Turgenev say that in the museum of the Swiss city of Lucerne they saw a five-meter skeleton found in 1577 by the doctor Platner in a mountain cave.

Historical chronicles continually recorded information about the discovery of unusual human remains.

Large skeletons 215 cm long were found during construction in 1821 in the USA in Tennessee, and in 1885 in Pennsylvania.

In 1971, in Queensland, a farmer plowing a field found a large fragment of a human jaw with five centimeter teeth.

But these are not the biggest skeletons yet.

In 1899, in Germany, miners found the fossilized remains of giants almost 240 cm tall.

In Australia, a race of giants discovered during excavations was called Meganthropus. Mega-people had the largest skeletons found on the mainland - almost three and a half meters. Just imagine the 67cm molar found by scientists in 1985! True, the owner of such a jaw lived a long time ago, almost nine million years ago.

Similar mega-people also existed in China. Fragments of jaws and teeth confirm the fact that such people should have risen 3-3.5 meters above the ground.

3.6 meters

Cases of finding imprints of huge feet are not uncommon. In 1979, a 17cm toe print was found in the Blue Mountains. If the skeleton of the owner of these fingers were found, it would be almost six meters in length. But not far from Malgoa, three footprints of a giant’s steps were discovered. The human foot was 60 cm long and the step width was 130 cm.

In 1877, gold miners in Nevada used pickaxes to cut out part of the foot, including the shin and kneecap, from the rock. Size - almost a meter from knee to foot. That is, the owner of the bones had to be 3.6 meters tall.

Large human skeletons were found by the German anthropologist Larson Kohl. In Central Africa, on the shores of Lake Elizi, he dug up a mass grave of 12 men, ranging in height from 3.5 to 3.5 meters.

There is documentary evidence of a discovery during the Second World War in Poland human skull, three times the size of a normal skull.

In the diamond mines South Africa in 1950, part of the skull was found. The diameter of the skull was 45 cm. It was a very ancient inhabitant of the planet. The age of the find is almost nine million years.

In 2008, near the city of Borjomi, Georgian archaeologists found the skeleton of a three-meter man.

In 2005, burials of people were found in the Sahara that had fairly large skeletons; the height of the people exceeded the two-meter mark.

120 centimeter human bone

A fossilized 120 centimeter human bone was found in Turkey. The owner of such a leg had to be five meters tall.

In the Netherlands in the 17th century there lived a woman nicknamed "The Big Maid". Her documented height was 254 cm. In the 19th century, the peasant of the Vitebsk province Fyodor Makhnov had a height of 285 cm.

People who had large skeletons have existed in modern times. The Dagestan giant of the last century Osman Abdurakhmianov had a height of 207 cm, the Frenchman Rene the Giant had a height of 224 cm, the American Robert Pershing Wadlow had a height of 272 cm, the basketball player Jorge Gonzalez had a height of 231 cm. The Turkish farmer Sultan Kesen had a height of 251 cm.

Numerous artifacts prove that in addition to giant people, there were animals of enormous size.

Their large skeletons can be seen in museums around the world. A huge dinosaur skeleton was found at the beginning of the last century in Africa. It is mounted and displayed in the Berlin Museum.

The largest dinosaurs - diplodocus and futalognokosaurs - surpassed the modern giant blue whale in size. His life-size skeleton can be seen in the Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara (USA).

Representatives of the fauna also have large skeletons, which for various reasons have “outgrown” their relatives: a giant horse from Belgium named Radar; the huge Big Chilly Cow; a very large rabbit named Emmy, 1.5 cm long; a giant pig from China with a waist circumference of 2.3 cm and fourteen centimeter tusks.

The incredible largest skeletons of birds, animals, prehistoric dinosaurs, footprints of people - giants in the world's museums - an indisputable fact that the legends about giants were formed from real facts, and not from fiction.

IN modern world There are many people with enormous growth who are also considered giants.

Giants were first mentioned in the Bible.

It happened in the Old Testament - there were giants on earth, and in their eyes the common people were like locusts to us. The Bible calls giants strong, glorious people of old, and compares them to the sons of God.

The legendary Philistine giant Goliath is known as a mythical hero who was three meters tall and had enormous physical strength. According to ancient legends, he fought his enemies by throwing huge boulders at them, which reached the size of a head of cabbage. However, according to legend, despite his superhuman strength, Goliath was defeated by the brave shepherd David, who was quite standard in size and not distinguished by gigantic physical strength.

The victory of brave David over the mighty giant today is an example for many young men whose physical nature far from heroic standards. Subsequently, David, the winner of Goliath, became king and ruled in the Kingdom of Israel from 1005 BC. to 965 BC

Giant people were also mentioned in ancient Greek sources. One of these were the Titans - the children of the Earth goddess Gaia, who were monstrous giants. It was mentioned that they were born from drops of the blood of Uranus, the ancient Greek God of Heaven. According to legend, huge titans fought against the Olympian gods, but were overthrown into Tartarus, deep within the earth, after Hercules defeated them.

Another representative of the giants was the patron god of Babylon. According to ancient legend, he had immeasurable strength and was so tall that he overshadowed all other gods. The Babylonian creation epic names him "marduk" ("son of pure sky") as the supreme deity of Babylonia.

Giants in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages are also characterized by the presence of giants of their time. According to the legends of that time, the Slavic hero Svyatogor, being a comrade in arms of Mikula Selyaninovich and Ilya Muromets, had superhuman strength and was very tall. According to ancient Slavic writings, Svyatogor was taller than trees and so heavy that the Earth could not bear his weight and collapsed under his feet.

One Russian writer, studying and creating writing for the peoples of the North, outlined the legend of this people in his work “Chukchi”. According to this legend, a tribe of incredibly tall people lived in the snow-covered tundra. This was about two thousand years ago, however, even today modern times Northern hunters on their way meet incredibly tall men with muscular builds.

The Hutsul people once sang a song about giants. Residents of Ukrainian villages and villages still know and sing it in their circles. In this song they described ancient people of enormous stature living in the mountain valley of the Carpathians. They were called giants, walking a mile and reaching the sky. Later, this Hutsul folk song was used by director Sergei Parajanov in his outstanding creation “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.”

Giants of Ancient Rome

Posio and Scundila

The famous “Gardens of Salustius” in Rome, which belonged to a historian who lived in the 1st century BC, were guarded by the giants Posio and Scundila. They were widely known throughout the city due to their enormous height, reaching three meters. In addition, the giants had a formidable character, which scared petty thieves and hooligans away from the luxurious Salustiya estate.

Another giant, whose height almost reached 3.5 meters, was one of the hostages sent to Rome by the Persian king. According to the writings of Josephus, an ancient Jewish historian, the giant did not possess any supernatural power, but was known for his gluttony, and in “eating competitions” he was always ahead of his rivals.

Giants in the eyes of travelers

Great travelers also managed to see giants. The Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan, a famous navigator, wintered in Argentina in 1520. On his expedition in modern Patagonia, he met a giant whose height exceeded two meters, and Magellan himself was waist-deep. Later, two more natives were captured by Magellan's people, who were intended to be delivered as a gift to King Charles I. But the natives died on the way across the ocean, unable to withstand the difficult transition, and were thrown overboard. According to some sources, Patagonia takes its name from the word patagón, which Magellan used to call the giants he met.

Another English navigator Francis Drake in 1578, making trip around the world, met on the shores of Patagonia people more than 2.8 meters tall, which he wrote down in his logbook.

Giants of the past century

Robert Pershing Wadlow

Giants also met in the last century. Among us lived a number of people with enormous stature. One of these people, Robert Pershing Wadlow, is called “the tallest man in history.” Robert Wadlow lived from 1918 to 1940 in Alton, Illinois. Throughout his short life he continued to grow, and at the time of Robert Wadlow’s death his height was 2 m 72 centimeters, his foot was 49 cm, and he weighed 199 kg.

But this is not an isolated case when the growth of a modern person reached non-standard sizes. In total, in the history of medicine of the last century, 17 giant people were recorded, taller than 2.44 m. John William Rogan, whose height was 2 m 64 cm, was the second in the number of tall people in history after Robert Pershing Wadlow. John F. Carroll was 2 m 63 cm tall, another giant, Finn Välno Myllyrinne, was 2 m 51 cm tall, and Bernard Coyen was 2 m 48 cm tall. Another person with a non-standard height of 2 m 49 cm was Don Kohler.

Giant woman

Among the representatives of female giants, the tallest woman in the world was recognized and still remains a Chinese woman from Hunan province - Zeng Jinlian, who lived in 1964-1982. Her height began to develop actively at the age of 4 months and by the age of four it reached 156 cm, and by the time of her death at the age of 18 her height was 2 m 48 cm.

Giants Hugo

The Hugo twin brothers were known to residents of the late 19th century. Baptiste and Antoine Hugo, twin brothers called "giants of the Alps" performed in Europe and America.

The eldest of the brothers, Baptist Hugo, was photographed with the inhabitants of North Africa, and called himself “the tallest man on all the Earth.” The height of Antoine, the youngest of the brothers, was 225 cm.

The Russian hero Fyodor Makhnov, a popular giant of the last century, became famous due to his impressive height of 2 m 68 cm. As St. Petersburg newspapers described him in 1906, he was “a Russian giant of a height never before seen in any part of the globe.” .

Fyodor Makhnov was born in the northeast of Belarus, near the village of Kostyuki in 1878. From the age of fourteen, Fedor traveled around the world with his performances and aroused surprised glances from the public and universal admiration.

At the age of sixteen, according to the contract, Makhnov’s height was “3 arshins 9 inches,” which in today’s terms is 253 centimeters. According to the Warsaw anthropologist Lushan, the height of Fyodor Makhnov continued to increase and reached a maximum of 285 cm. As Lushan noted in 1903 in the journal “Nature and People”, in order to at least slightly introduce this extraordinary person in society, the boots of the giant Fyodor to a person of standard height was chest-deep, and a boy of about 12 could fit in his full-length boot.

Makhnov was distinguished not only by his enormous height, but also by his superhuman physical strength. At his performances, he raised the orchestra platform, bent horseshoes and twisted spirals from iron rods. Being so famous, Fedor, of course, aroused interest among the common people in his personal life. Newspapers of that time published information that Fyodor Makhnov had a wife and five children. However, the father’s enormous height did not affect his offspring in any way, and all of Fedor’s children were of normal height.

Over time, Fyodor Makhnov got tired of being fun for the public, he quit his performances and moved to live in his native land, where he built a new farm with the proceeds from his performances. According to official data, Fyodor Makhnov died at the age of 34 from pneumonia. However, some suggested that the “Russian Gulliver” was poisoned by competitors - circus strongmen and giants.

Makhnov’s grave is still preserved in the cemetery of the village of Kostyuki. It says “The Tallest Man in the World.” He was 3 arshins 9 inches tall.” However, Fedor’s grave is a place without a burial, and the remains of the giant are no longer there. The skeleton of the Russian hero was exhumed in 1939 and was sent for study to the Medical Institute in Minsk. However, the skeleton remained lost after the destruction of the war, and has not been found to this day.

Sultan Kösen

According to Guinness World Records, the man currently living and the tallest is Turkish farmer Sultan Kösen. This man was born in December 1982 and now lives in Turkey. He is currently 2.51 m tall

Leonid Stadnik

Another contemporary giant who was voluntarily removed from the Guinness Book of Records is Leonid Stadnik. It no longer appears in the book of records because... refused the next control weighing. Currently, Leonid lives in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, in the village of Podolyantsy. Today, Leonid’s height is 2 m 53 cm, and he weighs 200 kg, and this, apparently, is not the limit, because he continues to grow.

Alexander Sizonenko

Alexander Sizonenko (1959 - 2012), another tall man of our time. He was born in the Kherson region of Ukraine, the village of Zaporozhye. Alexander was a famous basketball player who was the tallest in the history of the sport. Sizonenko was brought up in a sports boarding school in St. Petersburg, and played for the Leningrad team “Spartak” and the Kuibyshev “Stroitel”. The height of the tallest basketball player was 243 cm. Unfortunately, in January 2012 in the city of St. Petersburg, Alexander died.