ancient civilizations. Giant people - the ancient inhabitants of the Earth
In the tales and legends of almost all the peoples of the Earth there are references to people of great stature - giants. The fact that they used to live on Earth, whose growth was much higher than that of a modern person, is indicated by many archaeological finds found around the world.
The remains of giant people have been found in almost every part of the world:mexico, Peru, Tunisia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Philippines, Syria, Morocco, Australia, Spain, Georgia, South - East Asia, on the islands of Oceania.
In 2008, not far from the city Borjomi, in Kharagaul reserve, Georgian archaeologists found a skeleton three-meter giant. skull found in 3 times more skulls of an ordinary person.
The remains of giant people have been found in australia where anthropologists found a fossilized indigenous tooth height 67 and width 42 mm. The owner of the tooth must have been about 7.5 meters and weight 370 kilograms. Hydrocarbon analysis determined the age of the find - 9 million years.
AT China found fragments of the jaws of people whose height ranged from 3 before 3,5 meters, and weight 300 kilograms.
AT South Africa, on diamond mines, a fragment of a huge skull was found 45 centimeters. Anthropologists determined the age of the skull - about 9 million years.
Many remains of giants were found in the last century on Caucasus. In 2000, in a mountain cave in Eastern Georgia, archaeologists discovered the skeletons of four-meter giants.
On July 23, 2001, by Marvin Rainwater, owner of a farm in Iowa (USA), while digging a well, a tomb with mummified giant people 3 meters tall was discovered.
AT Sahara near Gobero Stone Age graves have been discovered. The age of the remains is about 5000 years. In 2005-2006, about 200 burials of two cultures were found in the region - Kythian and Tenerian. Kithians lived in this territory 8 - 10 thousand years back. They were taller than 2 meters.
Many giant fossilized bones were found in one of the mountain valleys Turkey. The fossilized human leg bone has a length 120 centimeters judging by this size, the height of a person was about 5 meters. The race of Giants existed!
The end of the 20th century was marked by a sensational discovery by the Anglo-French paleontological expedition, which conducted research in remote parts of Southern Mongolia, in the Gobi Desert, which has long been considered a hoard of secrets. There is a place called Uulakh, about which the legend of a giant devil who lived in stone gorge. It was so huge that the earth could hardly bear it.
A group of paleontologists, led by Professor Higley, decided to check the authenticity of this legend. Persistent excavations in rock layers, which are about 45 million years old, were crowned with success: a well-preserved skeleton of a humanoid creature was discovered. Moreover, scientists were struck by its growth - about 15-17 meters. So the legend was true? But how locals learned about the "gigantic shaitan" if he lived millions of years ago? There is only one plausible explanation: they have already seen his bones. The rock could be washed away by water, which allowed the Mongols to see the remains, the legend of which has been passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years.
So for 45 million years there has already been a human civilization - the Race of Giants!?
Independent experts pointed to another important factor: a forgery of this magnitude cannot be manufactured and delivered to the required place in secret.
Noteworthy is the version put forward by the Canadian scientist Roger Wingley, who noted that it is necessary to take into account the data of recent studies. It follows from them that for billions of years the Earth has rotated around the Sun and around its axis much faster than at present. Calculations show that at that time the day lasted about 10 hours, and in one year there were almost 400 days. According to Wingley, such conditions made it possible for giants to exist - dinosaurs, lizards, and even humanoids. It is likely that this is the key to the mysterious gorge.
Articles appeared in a number of British newspapers that called for a new look at the history of human development. The well-known British scientist Dr. Townes expressed his view on the problem.
He believes that his colleagues have made a unique find that does not belong to earthly civilization. The professor put forward a hypothesis that the creature found in the Gobi desert developed and lived according to laws that are very far from earthly evolution. Therefore, this is not a representative of an extinct race from our planet, not a hoax, but a creature from outer space.
Historical chronicles In the 19th century, skeletons of people of abnormally tall stature are often reported in different parts of the globe.
In 1821 in USA in Tennessee found the ruins of an ancient stone wall, and under it are 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 in Utah several burial mounds were discovered 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 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.
In 1930 near Basarsta in Australia prospectors in the development of jasper often found fossilized prints 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 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
close 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. .
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 " big man"measured 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)"
In 1877 not far from Jews in Nevada prospectors worked on a gold pan in a deserted hilly area. 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 foot - 97 centimeters from knee to foot The owner of this limb was tall 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 else was found
In 1936, the German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shore. 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 the territory 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.
One of the most unique specimens of Klaus Don's collections are the bones of a giant. This is a genuine artifact. AT Ecuador in 1964 he found part of the calcaneus and occipital bones of the human skeleton. Based on the calculations, he found out that this bone belonged to a man with a height of 7 meters 60 centimeters. These remains are over 10,000 years old. But that is not all. AT Bolivia he was also able to make a discovery. Klaus discovered a burial of people 260-280 centimeters tall. But the strangest thing is that they have extraordinary elongated skulls.
About giant people from other sources:
Helena Blavatsky
Theosophist, writer and traveler Helena Blavatsky formed a classification of existing earthly civilizations - Indigenous Human Races:
I race - angelic people,
II race - ghost-like people,
III race - Lemurians,
IV race - Atlanteans,
Race V - Aryans (WE).
In The Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky writes that the inhabitants of Lemuria were the "root race" of mankind.
As Blavatsky writes, “the late Lemurians were 10 to 20 meters tall. All the major achievements of earth technology come from them. They left their knowledge on the "golden plates", hidden to this day in hiding places. The Lemurian civilization existed for many millions of years and disappeared 2-3 million years ago.
The Atlantean race was also a highly developed race, but to a lesser extent than the Lemurians. The Atlanteans were 5-6 meters tall, outwardly they were similar to modern people. The main part of the Atlanteans died during the Flood 850 thousand years ago, but some groups of Atlanteans survived to a period of 12 thousand years ago.
The Aryan race appeared in the bowels of the Atlantean civilization about a million years ago. All modern earthlings are called Aryans. The early Aryans had a height of 3-4 meters, then the growth decreased.
Nicholas Roerich
The scientist, artist, philosopher-mystic Nicholas Roerich wrote about the Bamiyan statues: “These five figures belong to the creation of the hands of the Initiates of the Fourth Race, who, after the sinking of their mainland, found refuge in the strongholds and on the peaks of the Central Asian mountain range. These figures are an illustration of the Teaching about the gradual evolution of the Races. The largest depicts the First Race, its ethereal body was imprinted in hard, indestructible stone. The second - 36 meters high - depicts "Then-born". The third - 18 meters - perpetuates the Race that fell and conceived the first physical Race, born from a father and mother, the last offspring of which are depicted in statues on Easter Island. These were only 6 and 7.5 meters tall in the era when Lemuria was flooded. The Fourth Race was even smaller, though gigantic in comparison with our Fifth Race, and the series ends last.
Drunvalo Melchizedek
Scholar and esoteric, Drunvalo Melchizedek in the book "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life" writes about aliens from parallel worlds on the land of Ancient Egypt.
He describes the growth of people of different spatial dimensions:
1.5 - 2 meters - the growth of people of the third (our) dimension,
3.6 - 4.5 meters - the fourth dimension,
10.6 meters - the fifth dimension,
18 meters - the sixth dimension,
26 - 28 meters - the seventh dimension.
Drunvalo Melchizedek writes that Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten was not an earthling, he came from the star system of Sirius, his height was 4.5 meters. Akhenaten's wife, Nefertiti, was about 3.5 meters tall. They were people of the fourth dimension.
Ernst Muldashev
Professor Ernst Muldashev, during an expedition to Syria, in the town of Ain Dara, in an ancient ruined temple, discovered traces of a giant man. The length of the giant's footprint was 90 cm, the width at the base of the fingers was 45 cm, the length of the thumb was 20 cm, the length of the little finger was 15 cm. According to calculations, a person with such foot sizes should have been 6.5-10 meters tall.
In the East there is a very detailed description Buddha. From this description, called "60 features and 32 characteristics of the Buddha", it is known that the Buddha had a huge growth, webbed fingers and toes, 40 teeth, which corresponds to the description of the people of the Atlantean civilization.
GIANTS TODAY
At the present time, there are also giants, but, unfortunately, there is little fabulous in them. These are sick people suffering from increased function of the anterior pituitary gland, which produces growth hormone. Giants grow over 2 meters (the tallest person described in the literature was 320 centimeters tall). In childhood, they look like ordinary people, but by the beginning of puberty (9-10 years), their growth accelerates sharply and lasts longer than in ordinary people.
Matrine Van Buuren Bates(1837-1919) - "giant from Kentucky", hero of the American civil war who fought on the side of the Confederation (the slave-owning south of the country). His height reached 243 centimeters, and weight - 234 kilograms. In his youth, Martin worked as a school teacher, but after the start of the civil war, he joined the army, rose to the rank of captain, became a legend among the northerners, was captured, was exchanged (according to another version, he fled), and finally decided to leave the service, hiring to work to the circus. Despite their gigantic growth, such people are characterized by poor health. They rarely live to old age, sometimes have mental problems, do not show sexual activity, suffer from visual impairment. Their gigantism is disproportionate - people often become freaks with an excessively small head and long limbs. However, despite this, many giants find the strength to live a normal life. They even manage to become famous.
Stanislav Drobyshevsky
Do scientists really hide the most important and sensational discoveries and discoveries from the world community? Does it make sense for archaeologists and other scientists to hide the results of their research? In this video, anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky reveals the whole truth and tells whether the mysterious finds of archaeologists are really hiding from us and what false sensations can be found in archaeological practice.
On the example of the story about these supposedly human footprints that remained next to the paw prints of dinosaurs and whose age is approximately 108-94 million years, you can see how tenacious myths are. And also to understand why they are often provided with a long and happy life. As always, this mythological longevity is based on one of the fundamental properties of the human psyche, which can be briefly formulated as follows: the simpler the explanation, the more they believe it.
Alexander Markov
In popular science articles on archeology, geology, paleontology, evolutionary biology and other disciplines, one way or another connected with the reconstruction of events of the distant past, absolute dates are found every now and then: something happened 10 thousand years ago, something 10 million, and something - 4 billion years ago. Where do these numbers come from?
Elena Belyaeva
To date, archaeologists have established that the oldest people who created primitive tools of the Oldowan type, no later than 1.8 million years ago. were able to go beyond Africa and then began to populate Eurasia and reached the South Caucasus. In the same period, more developed hominids formed in Africa, making hand axes and various other tools (Acheulean culture). Until recently, all data indicated that they left Africa much later, and only about 600 thousand years penetrated into the Caucasus. back, which surprised scientists and required explanation. However, recent discoveries by Russian archaeologists in Armenia have shown that the creators of the Acheulean industries came to the Caucasus more than a million years earlier than was thought. This forces us to reconsider the previous scenario of the initial settlement of Eurasia. One of its authors, archaeologist Elena Belyaeva, will tell about the history of primitive people and this discovery.
Stanislav Drobyshevsky
What are Paleolithic Venuses? When did these figurines appear in the history of mankind and what is the area of their distribution? What artistic characteristics do they have? What significance could Paleolithic Venus have for Stone Age people? Anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky tells.
There are many words that are in the language every now and then, but the meaning of which, if you think about it properly, is given with particular difficulty, and when people reach it, a common understanding is not obtained. That is the word "time". No wonder time fell into the number of philosophical categories, extremely general concepts, no longer amenable to formal definitions. What they write about categories in explanatory dictionaries, encyclopedias is not definitions, but some general explanations, thanks to which a person can understand what is at stake. In general, the meaning of the category is revealed not by definitions, but by gradually introducing the reader into their entire system with examples, by referring to the history of philosophical thought. However, each category is matter, space, time, existence, cause, movement, and so on. - the source of endless discussions.
Stanislav Drobyshevsky
What methods of anthropological research are used by specialists when working with finds? How do scientists know what they tell us? How can anthropology confirm that evolutionary paths followed this way and not otherwise? What set of methods is used to study the find? Does the researcher from Argentina have access to the work of the researcher from Japan? What don't scientists really hide? What are the main methods of anthropology? About this in a lecture by Stanislav Drobyshevsky.
Rodkin M.V.
The dispute about the biogenic (organic) or abiogenic origin of oil is of particular interest to the Russian reader. Firstly, hydrocarbon raw materials are one of the main sources of income in the country's budget, and secondly, Russian scientists are recognized leaders in many areas in this old, but still not closed, scientific dispute.
Stanislav Drobyshevsky
What can paleopathology tell about ancient man? What data can we use to reconstruct the way of life of Stone Age people? What do not only critical injuries of the skeleton indicate, but also changes in the joints, the skeletal system? How does paleopathology answer the question of how our ancestors lived, how they moved and how long they lived? Anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky tells what discoveries can be made by studying the skeleton or individual bones. You will learn why it is necessary to study the bones of a Stone Age human and what prospects paleopathology opens up in anthropology.
Vyacheslav Malyshevsky
Do you know what methods of dating archaeological finds are used? In this video you will learn what dating methods are used in archeology, what they are based on and what is their effectiveness. Our wonderful lecturer - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Technical Physics of the Faculty of Physics of the Southern Federal University Vyacheslav Sergeevich Malyshevsky - will talk about what constitutes a radiocarbon dating method, potassium-argon, the track method - about this and much more in this video.
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Probably, there is not a single people in whose myths giants would not be present. They can be good or evil, perform feats and protect other people's treasures, fight each other or stand guard over their native land ... How can one explain the external similarity of such heroes, despite the fact that the peoples who composed these legends are sometimes not connected in any way ? Maybe the legends that people from different parts of the Earth pass from mouth to mouth indicate that the giants really existed?
They differed not only in size
But if there really were giants, not only myths and legends, but also traces of life should have remained after them: architectural structures or buried remains.
According to a number of scientists, many megalithic objects found in different parts of the Earth serve as proof of the existence of giants. Even in our time, it is extremely problematic to build them, and tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago, without lifting mechanisms, it was simply impossible!
In Lebanon, not far from Beirut, is the famous Baalbek Terrace. Three huge stone slabs, each of which weighs about 800 tons. The plates are identical and fitted to each other so that a knife blade cannot be inserted between them. The researchers calculated that the installation of one such stone block (its dimensions are 21x5x4 meters) would require the simultaneous efforts of at least 35 thousand people!
Who did it and why? Arabic handwritten treatises say that the building was the temple of Jupiter, and it was erected by giant people on the orders of King Nimrod immediately after the Flood.
The ancient city of Teotihuacan, located 50 kilometers from Mexico City, is a whole complex of huge stone blocks. According to the most common historical version, the city was built by giants to turn people into gods. Its layout resembles a model of the solar system. From central temple, which represents the Sun, on the corresponding
In the distance are planetary temples, including Pluto, officially opened in 1930! That is, already at that time the ancient inhabitants knew astronomy thoroughly.
The temples were built in the form of pyramids, comparable in size to those of Egypt. It is known that the Aztecs found the city already abandoned, it was they who gave it the name Teotihuacan, which means "divine place".
Among the objects that giants could erect, scientists also include the Egyptian Sphinx, the English Stonehenge, the stone figures of Easter Island, the Tibetan City of the Gods.
Not only the structures themselves are amazing, but also their geometric relationship with each other. For example, a mental line drawn from the Tibetan City of the Gods to Egyptian Sphinx, going further, leads to Easter Island. And the same line drawn from the City of the Gods to the Mexican pyramids also goes to Easter Island! These two lines outline one fourth of the earth's surface, and the line drawn from the City of the Gods to Stonehenge divides such a quarter exactly in half.
Dino hunter?
There are also mentions of huge people in historical documents. Herodotus writes that the Spartans during military campaigns carried with them the skeleton of the warrior Orestes, who was 3.5 meters tall.
The ancient Greek scientist Pausanias told how a human skeleton 5.5 meters high was found at the bottom of the Sront River.
The Roman historian Josephus Flavius described the testimonies of those who saw the giants live. Eyewitnesses said that their faces were different from ordinary human ones, and their voices were thunderous.
In the era of early Christianity, priests believed that Adam was 4 meters tall, and Eve was 3 meters. There are records of this in the archives of the Vatican.
Manuscripts kept in Tibetan monasteries mention that during earthworks, the monks found the bodies of men and women from 5 to 6 meters tall.
In a book by an unknown medieval author called History and Personality, it is mentioned that a four-meter skeleton in military armor was found in Cumberland (one of the counties of England), next to it were a sword and an ax of the appropriate size.
And, of course, a huge number of finds were made already in our time or close to our time.
In the 20th century, many four-meter skeletons were unearthed in the mountains of the Caucasus.
Their age is tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. The presence of such a large number of remains allowed scientists to assume that it was here, after some kind of global catastrophe, that the giants moved in search of salvation - and here they found their last refuge.
The facts confirming the existence of giants include numerous petrified huge footprints. For example, in Tanzania, an imprint of a human foot 80 centimeters long was discovered. Similar footprints of a slightly smaller size (50 centimeters) were found in the Nevada desert, their age is at least 250 million years.
In Turkmenistan, near the village of Khoja-pil-ata, a chain of five-fingered footprints was found next to the footprints of dinosaurs. The growth of the giant who left them reaches 5 meters, he lived 150 million years ago.
In 1935, a human tooth was found in Hong Kong, which is five times larger than the tooth of an ordinary person, in 1950 in Alaska - a skull 60 centimeters high with two rows of teeth, and in 1999 in Mongolia - a petrified human skeleton about 15 meters long .
Such facts allow us to assert that the giants once really existed. But were they united people, which settled all over the Earth, or belonged to different races - a question to which scientists have not yet given a definite answer.
Horse under the arm
On the territory of modern Russia, the remains of giants were found in Karelia and other habitats of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
In their legends, two tribes of giants are mentioned at once - the Hiisi and the Adogites. As Finno-Ugric peoples settled in their current territories, the giants moved north. Moreover, this happened not millions of years ago, but already in the Middle Ages. About the giants living in the north as about historical fact wrote the Danish scholar Saxo Grammatik (1140-1206).
Some representatives of the giant tribes were in contact with ordinary people- and even lived among them. The Arab historian Ibn Fadlan (X century) writes that he came to the Volga Bulgaria (the territory of modern Chuvashia) to look at the giant living here, but, unfortunately, he had already died. Ibn Fadlan describes that he was 12 cubits (about 6 meters) tall and with a head like a huge cauldron.
The testimony of another Arab, the scientist and traveler Abu Hamid al-Andalusi (XI century), has also been preserved. He also visited the places of residence of the Finno-Ugric peoples - and saw a living giant from the Adogites tribe. The scientist said that he could take the horse under his arm like a common person takes the lamb.
Russian ethnographer Peter Theodor Schwindt in his book " folk legends of the North-Western Ladoga Region”, published at the end of the 19th century, writes that once huge people lived in these places, who were gradually replaced by the Laplanders. But numerous evidence of the existence of giants remained: huge bones found in the ground, as well as some structures in the mountains and on the islands.
It's all the asteroid's fault
Many times on the Internet there were photographs of huge human skeletons found in various places planets. It was argued that these were real finds of archaeologists, and they caused shock to all people who saw these images, because along with simple curiosity and a share of fear, the question arose: “Who were these people, and how to fit their existence into the already familiar model of the world inspired by to everyone from childhood?
Mentions of the largest skeletons
A photo of the largest human skeleton in the world appeared on the Internet in the early 2000s. However, these are not the first finds of this size.
Since ancient times, fragments of the skeletons of huge people have been discovered in various countries.
The first records of this date from around the 2nd century. The historian Pausanias in his works described the skeleton of a man whose height exceeded 5 m. He was found on the territory of Syria.
About 10 centuries ago, the Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan recorded in his travel notes that the subjects of the Khazar king showed him a skeleton, which was about 6 m in height.
Bones of the same huge size were seen in Switzerland in the city of Lucerne by Russian writers Korolenko and Turgenev. Museum workers explained to them that this find was made by the doctor F. Platner, who discovered them in one of the mountain caves in the second half of the 16th century.
Giants were also mentioned in Russian chronicles. It says that during the battle on the Kulikovo field, a giant over 4 meters tall fought for the nomads.
During the conquest of America, one of the Spanish conquistadors discovered a huge skeleton (about 12 m) in one of the Aztec temples and sent it as a gift to the Pope. This is not all mention of amazing finds. There are also more modern ones. In the 19th century, an American archaeologist named Whitney examined a 2 m skull. One can only imagine how tall its owner was.
AT modern world from time to time, information about shocking finds appears on the network, however, it is quickly refuted and classified, preventing it from getting into the “masses”. Moreover, huge skeletons are found in various countries and corners of the world, even at the bottom of the ocean. Of the relatively recent finds, these are huge skeletons found in Yakutia, India, Pakistan, Africa, etc.
Truth or fiction?
For more than a year, disputes have been going on about how true the pictures of giant skeletons are, and whether there is reason to believe that our planet was inhabited in ancient times by huge giants.
The authenticity of most of the photographs has been debunked as they have been subjected to extensive scrutiny and analysis. It turned out that the masters of Photoshop and other similar programs just decided to play a trick and create another "duck" to attract public attention. However, everything is not as simple as it might seem at first glance.
Even after the fake photos were officially announced, some still do not believe that this is a falsification. There are a number of reasons for this:
Firstly, it has not yet been established who built many such huge structures as the pyramids, Kornak, Stonehenge and others. They consist of huge stone blocks that even modern machines cannot lift. There is a version that it was the giants who were engaged in such buildings, which is why they are so massive.
Secondly, too much evidence is given in various old documents and books in which historians, archaeologists, travelers describe huge human skeletons they saw with their own eyes. There are also many other facts that speak for themselves.
Evidence for the existence of giants
In 79 of the last century, in the Blue Mountains, several local residents discovered a piece of stone, on which part of the imprint of a huge foot was clearly visible. Scientists calculated that if the footprint had been completely preserved, its length would be about 60 cm. This suggests that a person with a height of about 6 m could have left it.
Renowned zoologist Ivan Sanderson told a story that Alan McShir, a former bulldozer operator, shared with him. He said that in the middle of the last century he worked in Alaska and somehow discovered several huge skulls, the height of which was almost 60 cm, as well as huge bones of the lower leg, their length was from 1.5 to 1.8 m.
One of the adobe tablets made back in the days of ancient Babylon says that the priests received their knowledge of astronomy from giants over 4 meters tall and living in South Asia.
Also, the natives in South Africa have a legend that says that there lived huge people with incredible strength. They knew how to block the flow of rivers. They could walk hundreds of kilometers a day and brought dead hippos and elephants on their own shoulders.
And this is not all the facts that can be cited in support of the real existence of giants in antiquity.
The last really proven giant
However, on this moment there is reliable evidence of only one really existing giant. In 1905, Jean Rostand, a famous biologist from France, wrote in his work that he saw a huge man perform in Paris. His height was 2 m 85 cm, the length of his palm was 32 cm, and his feet were 51 cm. He weighed 182 kg. As it turned out later, such a person really existed. His last name was Fyodor Makhnov, and he was from Belarus. He possessed simply inhuman strength, and raising a village bath was not a problem for him. He died from a common cold. Most likely, the largest human skeleton in the world belongs to Makhnov, since all modern giants simply do not reach him, and even one of the tallest people in the world is 10 cm lower than Makhnov.
It is difficult to say unequivocally whether large human skeletons actually exist. It is possible that the existence of giants in antiquity is just a fantasy and a desire to rewrite the history of the emergence of people on the planet. Everyone has the right to believe what they want, and only scientists and archaeologists who have excavated and seen everything with their own eyes know the truth.
Myths and legends, pictures of ancient people, archaeological excavations, anthropological studies, written sources from different years tell about people of abnormal growth. Were our ancestors really Atlanteans, or is all this nothing more than fiction?
archaeological finds
Remains of gigantic size are found in many countries of the world. In Turkey, archaeologists discovered a human leg bone 1.2 m long. With such dimensions, the growth of its owner should have been more than 5 meters.
Found bone, presumably belonging to a man about 5 meters tall. On the right - Robert Vodlow, a giant from Illinois, was the tallest man in history - height 272 cm.
Ancient giants also lived on the territory of present-day China - skeletons almost 3.5 m long were found there. Scientists have found that their lifetime weight reached 300 kg.
Anthropologists also discovered a curious find in Australia - a petrified tooth of enormous size. After a thorough analysis, it was possible to establish its age - more than 9 million years. According to scientists, the growth of the owner of the tooth exceeded 7 meters, the weight approached 400 kg.
Prospectors who washed gold in the desert region of Nevada accidentally stumbled upon the remains of giant people of antiquity. The terrain was hilly - under one of the ledges, the worker noticed a protruding bone. The gold miners climbed the hill and froze in shock when they saw the bones of the foot and lower leg, partially immured in stone.
The black color of the bones testified to their solid age. The workers took the find and brought it to the nearest medical Center. A group of doctors who examined the remains came to a consensus - human bones. According to them, the dimensions of the lower leg were later recreated - the distance from the foot to the knee was 97 cm, and the height of the owner was 3.60 m.
Of even greater interest to science was the stone in which the foot was embedded. It turned out that this is quartzite, which is more than 185 million years old. It turns out that giant people lived in the era of dinosaurs?
After that, the local museum sent an expedition to the place of discovery. The search did not give a result - anthropologists did not find other parts of the skeleton.
The existence of giants is also confirmed by written sources. The folio "History and Antiquity" is kept in the Oxford University Library. It contains information about a 4.5 yard (4 m) long skeleton and a 6.5 inch (17 cm) tooth found in Cumberland. The finds were made in the Middle Ages.
Giants existed in the prehistoric period and later. In 2006, researchers discovered almost 200 burials in the Sahara Desert. The age of all the bones found is about 5 thousand years. In addition, they all belonged to people above 2 meters.
Myths and legends
Heroes, endowed with enormous growth and strength, existed in the myths and legends of different peoples of the world. One of them is the mythical hero Goliath. The three-meter giant fearlessly fought with enemies, but the brave shepherd David managed to defeat him.
In legends Ancient Greece the Titans are often mentioned, who opposed the gods of Olympus, but were defeated by Hercules.
In the Middle Ages, there were heroes - Svyatogor, towering above the trees and under the weight of which the earth collapsed, Ilya Muromets, a fellow of enormous size and remarkable strength.
Myths and legends do not arise from scratch - many heroes of epics had real prototypes. For example, the legend of a giant devil from a stone gorge ended with a sensational discovery by paleontologists.
From legends to real finds
This discovery was made at the end of the last century and concerns the race of ancient people. The Gobi Desert has always been full of secrets. A legend about a giant devil living in the Uulakh stone gorge is associated with it.
The tradition is old, passed down from generation to generation. Professor-paleontologist Higley became interested in its reliability, gathered colleagues from England and France to conduct excavations.
The group worked hard, examining layer after layer of rock. Expectations were justified - in one of the layers, the researchers found the skeleton of a creature similar to a human. Scientists were struck by two things:
- The age of the rock in which the remains were located is 45 million years!
- The length of the skeleton is almost 17 meters.
It is not clear how the locals learned about the existence of a human civilization of giants? The participants of that expedition found only one plausible explanation - their ancestors saw the bones of a giant and decided that they were diabolical.
Canadian scientist Roger Wingley, referring to research data, argued that for billions of years the planet Earth rotated faster than it does now. There were about 10 hours in a day. Dinosaurs and huge lizards existed under such conditions, so why couldn't humanoid creatures exist?
Perhaps the clue to the origin of the giant people of antiquity lies in the theory of the British scientist Tones. Analyzing the find from the Gobi Desert, he came to the conclusion that the creature is a representative of an alien race. It lived and developed according to laws that are not characteristic of earthly civilization.
Earth giants through the eyes of eyewitnesses
And yet, huge people existed on earth - this is confirmed by the testimonies of great travelers. In 1520 famous navigator Magellan met a giant native in Argentina - he was twice as tall as a Spaniard.
Magellan ordered to catch the Argentine and load it onto a ship in order to give it as a gift to the Spanish king. Navigators caught two giants, but they could not endure a long voyage - they died on board.
After 58 years, the Englishman Francis Drake went to trip around the world. On the shores of Patagonia, the navigator saw people whose height was approaching 3 meters. He made an entry about this in the logbook.
Russian hero of the 20th century
In 1906, the newspapers of St. Petersburg wrote about him as a Russian hero "of growth hitherto not seen in the globe". The hero's name was Fedor Makhnov.
He was born near the Belarusian village of Kostyuki in 1878, and from the age of 14 he performed all over the world. In the contract, dated 1894, Makhnov's height was listed as "3 arshins 9 vershaks" - 253 cm.
The young man continued to grow and already in 1903 reached 285 cm. The magazine "Nature and People" then wrote that the giant's boot reaches the chest of a person of ordinary height, and a 12-year-old boy is placed inside the boot.
Body features did not prevent Fedor from marrying and becoming the father of five children. The children did not inherit their father's height.
Fedor performed in public for some time, and as soon as he saved up money, he moved with his family to his homeland and built a farm. Makhnov died at the age of 34 from pneumonia, although it was rumored that his competitors had poisoned him.
The cases described are far from the only ones. Researchers suggest that the representatives of the Lemurian civilization, which disappeared 3 million years ago, were 10-20 meters tall, and the Atlanteans - 5-6 meters.
The early Aryans, whose race originated about 1 million years ago, were 3-4 meters. And each successive generation is lower and lower.
