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Giant in Japan 19th century. The largest human skeletons

The Bible, Vedas and myths of various peoples mention a race of giants who once inhabited our planet. Ancient legends say that these were Atlantean giants who relied on their physical strength and challenged higher beings or God. For which the heavens punished this race by wiping it off the face of the Earth. Many "grammarists" who wished to interpret sacred texts literally, constantly sought evidence for these quotations. From time to time, people came across huge vertebrae or fragments of other large remains. These finds gave food for speculation that these were giant human skeletons.

Adherents of the extraterrestrial (extraterrestrial) hypothesis also made their contribution. But the public’s interest in the ancient giants was further fueled by pseudo-scientific publications, which from time to time published articles about supposedly sensational discoveries. In order not to be branded as unfounded, they also published photographs from the discovery site, which clearly showed the skeletons of giant people. The photos showed the resting remains of a well-preserved giant, and next to him were small figures of archaeologists. Based on the average height of modern people, someone looking at such a photograph can easily imagine the height of the deceased - about 20 meters.

However, a strange trend is alarming. Despite the various regions in which the skeletons of giant people were allegedly found - India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Greece, South Africa, Portugal and Kenya all followed the same pattern. The remains were stumbled across by chance, during geological exploration or while laying roads. The military immediately arrived at the excavation site, cordoned off the region and hid the find from the eyes of the general public. Therefore, in the hands of scientists there was no other evidence left except for a photograph taken from a helicopter.

At the same time, both articles and photographs allegedly confirming the findings multiplied. The giants were sometimes three meters, sometimes eight, sometimes a record 24. Moreover (as if photographs seemed not enough) clay tablets began to be found at the burial sites - sometimes in Sanskrit, sometimes in Arabic - stating that the giants belonged to one or another mentioned in Vedas or Bible. The inscriptions, naturally, were also confiscated by the evil military, who for some reason were interested in hiding the historical truth.

Finally, National Geographic conducted its own investigation of one of the images in 2007. It turned out that the background for the excavations, during which giant human skeletons were found, was an archaeological expedition from Cornell University. However, in fact, in the town of Hyde Park, New York, on September 16, 2000, scientists found not the remains of an ancient giant, but fragments of the skeleton... of a mastodon that lived 13 thousand years ago.

Soon the author of the “sensational photograph” was discovered. It turned out to be a certain Iron Kite. Moreover, this man did not want to mislead anyone. He simply submitted his photomontage to a graphic design competition held by one of the websites. And he even won an award there - third place. Various Photoshop masters took part in the competition, presenting their works to the jury - from frankly funny to such “almost serious”. In 2007, the National Geographic Society issued a statement that no remains of giants had been found, that giant human skeletons were a myth and a falsification of esotericists.

"...a gentle giant, a giant of giants,
great of nature, but with the kindest nature
and a heart as true and tender as ever beat."
William J. Day

Sometimes you need to be silent. No one needs it, you. So I’m silent. To clenched jaws, which you remember only when your facial muscles begin to cramp... But here it fell out of the Chinese Internet, and it’s a pity to ignore it, because it’s so interesting. I'm sharing.

So, the second half of the 19th century, Jiangxi province ( according to other sources - Fujian province), Wuyuan County, Hong Guan Village, where Zhang Shichai ( 詹世釵; the pro-Southern British called him Chang Woo Gow), a man known as the "Giant of China". Legend has it that just a month after birth he weighed as much as a six-year-old child, and at the age of two he was of such impressive height that his mother had to justify herself to unwitting witnesses as to why this big baby was suddenly asking for the breast...

With my first wife.

European citizens, eager for a show, found it in 1865 at an ink factory somewhere near Shanghai and decided to take it around the world like a curiosity ( his height by that time was 2.48 cm). They got to the point that Zhang learned ten (!) foreign languages, cut his braid, put on a frock coat and even got himself a British wife - Catherine Santley from Liverpool, who bore him three children.

After retiring, ahem, from the scene, around 1878, Mr. Shichai opened a Chinese tea shop, the Oriental Bazaar, in Bournemouth, selling antiques, Chinese bronzes and silks along the way. He died in 1893, outliving his wife by four months. In the title of the obituary they wrote: death of a famous giant.

Some sources indicate that Zhang's height was 319 cm, but this is not true; the reason for the discrepancies lies in the difference in the translation of measures - Chinese and English.

As contemporaries assured, Zhang’s abnormal growth was not a consequence of illness. According to the giant Han's fellow countrymen, both his father and his brothers were all over two meters tall. Their family’s house was called “the house of the giants”, 长人之家 ( It’s interesting that from Chinese into Russian the word长 translated both “high” and “long”; "house of the long people" J).

But there were other giants in China in the 19th century...

The Chinese write that in this photo from 1876 we see a nameless Qing giant and a nameless Englishman, but in fact it is the Chinese giant Chonkwicsee and companions. Photographer - A. U. Burman.

1894, Yunnan Province, giant Zhang Yanming 常严明, 2.41 m tall. Photographer - Australian J. E. Morrison.

1900, Jiangsu province. Giant Lika Erdun with photographer James.

Bonus: comparison of Zhang Shichai with famous Chinese basketball players - Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.

From time immemorial, managers have used a proven, reliable method of hiding the truth - discrediting. How does this work? Very simple. It is enough to show a couple of “blessed” people who claim that they flew with aliens on flying saucers to a neighboring village for beer. And then on all television channels, announcers, when reporting the observation of something for which science cannot give an explanation, use derogatory epithets, and at the same time a mysterious, condescending smile plays on their faces. All. The topic of UFOs is buried, and it is already indecent to start a conversation about it in polite society.

This photo became a sensation, which ended in disaster when it became known that the picture was created using Photoshop, especially for a competition on swearing and graphic editor skills.

In the same way, information about genuine finds of archaeologists confirming the existence of a race of giants on Earth in the past could be discredited. Do you remember how much information about such finds circulated in the press of the nineties and two thousand? And all this until a massive infusion of fakes began, which quickly convinced everyone that no sane person would even discuss the topic of giants. The question lost its relevance, public interest subsided, and that’s it. Another sensation is buried.

But then a message appeared in the Western press that again forced us to return to the topic of giants.

The Smithsonian Institution has admitted to destroying thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900s.

The US Supreme Court has ordered the Smithsonian to release classified documents dating back to the early 1900s, showing that the organization took part 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 senior officials for defending the dominant chronology of human evolution that existed at that time.

Suspicions emanating from the American Institute of Alternative Archeology (AIAA) that the Smithsonian Institution destroyed thousands of giant human remains were met with hostility by the organization, which responded by suing the AIAA for defamation and attempting to damage the reputation of the 168-year-old institution.

According to AIAA spokesman James Charward, new details emerged during the trial when a number of Smithsonian insiders acknowledged the existence of documents that allegedly prove the destruction of tens of thousands of human skeletons ranging in size from 6 to 12 feet tall (1.8-3.65 m). .), the existence of which traditional archeology, for various reasons, does not want to acknowledge.

The turning point in the case was the demonstration of a 1.3 meter long human femur as proof of the existence of such gigantic human bones. This evidence blew a hole in the defense of the Institute's lawyers, since the bone was stolen from the organization by a senior curator in the mid-1930s, who kept it his entire life and wrote a written confession on his deathbed about the Smithsonian's cover-up operations.

“It’s terrible that they do this to people,” he writes in his letter. “We are hiding the truth about the ancestors of humanity, about the giants who inhabited the earth, which are mentioned in the Bible, as well as other ancient texts.”

The US Supreme Court ordered the institute to release classified information about everything related to the “destruction of evidence relating to pre-European culture,” as well as items “associated with larger-than-usual human skeletons.”

“The publication of these documents will help archaeologists and historians reconsider current theories about human evolution and help us better understand pre-European culture in the Americas and the rest of the world,” says AIAA Director Hans Guttenberg.

The release of the documents is scheduled for 2015, and all this will be coordinated by an independent scientific organization to ensure the political neutrality of the operation.

The information is, of course, controversial. If the decision of any Russian court can be read on its website, and this can be done in a few “clicks”, then with decisions of American courts, everything is much more complicated. It is very difficult to verify the information presented in this article.

But even if it is confirmed, how many people will believe that in 2015, which is just over two weeks away, we will learn the whole truth from the Smithsonian Institution? This is the first.

Second: - Has the Smithsonian Institution laid its paw on areological finds around the world? Of course not. This means that either the findings of the remains of giants are actually a “duck” to divert attention, or the cover-up conspiracy is on a global scale.

I see no reason to doubt both options. The existence of a global conspiracy to curb the development of alternative energy is beyond any doubt. History is also not falsified spontaneously, but is coordinated from a single center. But there is one more point in this whole story. There are too many recorded reports of discoveries of the remains of giants. So much so that the explanation of this phenomenon as a simple “duck” seems completely unconvincing.

Here is a partial list of mysterious finds:

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 1885, in Gasterville (Pennsylvania), a stone crypt was discovered in a large burial mound containing a skeleton 215 centimeters high. Primitive images of people, birds and animals were carved on the walls of the crypt.

In 1899, miners in the Ruhr region 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.

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. 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 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. 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 at Megalong Valley in the 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.

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)."

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. 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

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 tibia bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.

IN South Africa During 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 quite reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and on the islands of Oceania. Almost all nations have legends about Giants who lived in ancient times on the territory of a particular country. Armenia is no exception, but unlike other places, the stories here cannot be so easily dismissed.

Thus, during a scientific and practical expedition that took place in 2011, a number of evidence was collected, from which it followed that people 2 meters or more in height inhabited some regions of Armenia.

Artsrun Hovsepyan, director of the Goshavank historical complex, said that in 1996, when laying a road through the hills, bones were found of such a size that when they were applied to themselves, they reached the level of the throat. Komitas Aleksanyan, a resident of the village of Ava, says that local residents found skulls and leg bones of very large sizes, almost the size of a person. According to him: “Once it happened last fall (2010) and another 2 years ago (2009), on the territory of our village, where the grave of St. Barbara is located.”

Ruben Mnatsakanyan discovered bones that were very large, the length of the entire skeleton was approximately 4 m 10 cm. “I carried the skull in my hands and could see no closer than 2 meters in front of me. Such was its size. The shin was approximately 1 m 15 cm. This bone was also not a light one.”

In 1984, construction of a new plant was underway near the city of Sisian. Tractors were digging the foundation. Suddenly one of them, throwing away a layer of earth, stopped. An ancient burial opened before the observers, where the remains of a very large man lay. The burial in which the second giant lay was piled high with huge stones. The skeleton was covered with earth up to the middle of the ribs, there was a sword along the body, with both hands he held its hilt, which was made of bone. Before this, I thought that giants lived in ancient times. Maybe I wouldn’t have paid attention to it, but the sword was made of metal, because along the entire body there was a layer of rust left over from the iron, said Ruben Mnatsakanyan.

Pavel Avetisyan, director of the Institute of Archeology, claims that on the territory of Gyumri, in the area of the Black Fortress, huge skulls and even entire skeletons of the ancient period were discovered, which were shown to him. “I was just taken aback, because probably such a person’s thumb would be thicker than my hand. I myself participated in excavations and often came across the remains of people who were much taller than me. Of course, I can’t tell you their height exactly, but it’s more than 2 meters. Because the tibia or hip bone that was discovered, when I put it on my leg, was much longer.”

Vazgen Gevorgyan: “The entire population of the village of Khot talks about the skeletons of giants found there. In particular, Razmik Arakelyan many years ago, during excavation work, personally saw the graves of two giants. The village headman, to whom his father showed the exact place, also spoke about this. Everyone who saw it was very surprised at how huge people once lived here. Apparently there was their cemetery there.”

In the neighboring village of Tandzatap there are also witnesses who spoke of giant bones - the tibia reached to the waist of the tallest of them. This happened in 1986, when they were making terraces for fruit trees. Tractors dug up the mountainside many meters deep. Thanks to this, very ancient layers were accessible. The tractor bucket demolished the bottom slab, and then the burial itself was opened, from which the bone of a real giant was extracted. Mikhail Ambartsumyan, at that time personally supervised the work.

Mikhail Ambartsumyan, former village head: “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, we couldn’t see. They left it that way. 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. The height of the crucian carp reached about 2 meters.”

In addition, there is folklore that never arises out of nowhere. In the tales, myths and legends of absolutely all nations, memories of the race of giants have been preserved. And people say that “there is no smoke without fire.” It’s not only the Russian language that has this saying, the English say: “There is no fire without smoke.” In Latin it sounds like "I Flamrnafutno estproximo" - "The flame follows the smoke."

Giants of antiquity - fiction or reality? Here's some information that recently appeared on the Internet: The Smithsonian Institution admitted that it destroyed thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900s.

According to AIAA spokesman James Charward, new details emerged during the trial when a number of Smithsonian insiders acknowledged the existence of documents that allegedly prove the destruction of tens of thousands of human skeletons ranging in size from 6 to 12 feet tall (1.8-3.65 m). ;), the existence of which traditional archeology, for various reasons, does not want to acknowledge.

Let's find out more about this...

But first, let's define this topic: yes, you are right, the photos in the post are a collage and photoshop.

The release of the documents is scheduled for 2015, and all this will be coordinated by an independent scientific organization to ensure the political neutrality of the operation.

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

Australian finds

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 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 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.

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 tibia 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 Southeast Asia and on the islands of Oceania.

Almost all nations have legends about Giants who lived in ancient times on the territory of a particular country. Armenia is no exception, but unlike other places, the stories here cannot be so easily dismissed. And, although not all anthropologists and archaeologists believe that we are talking about an entire race of giants, and not about isolated tall specimens, attempts do not stop to discover the last refuges of our distant ancestors or traces of their economic activities.

Thus, during a scientific and practical expedition that took place in 2011, a number of evidence was collected, from which it followed that fairly large people, 2 or more meters tall, inhabited some regions of Armenia.

Fragments of a skeleton found in a crypt in the village of Khot.

Ruben Mnatsakanyan, an independent researcher, mentioned in an interview for the “City of Giants” program (Culture TV channel) that he discovered bones that were very large, the length of the entire skeleton was approximately 4 m 10 cm. “I carried the skull in my hands and could see no closer than 2 meters in front of you. Such was its size. The shin was higher than my lower back, it was about 1 m 15 cm. This bone was also not a light one.” In 1984, construction of a new plant was underway near the city of Sisian. Tractors were digging the foundation. Suddenly one of them, throwing away a layer of earth, stopped. An ancient burial opened before the observers, where the remains of a very large man lay. The burial in which the second giant lay was piled high with huge stones. The skeleton was covered with earth up to the middle of the ribs, there was a sword along the body, with both hands he held its hilt, which was made of bone. Before this, I thought that giants lived in ancient times. Perhaps I would not have paid attention to it, but the sword was made of metal, because along the entire body there was a layer of rust left over from the iron.

Human bone found at excavations in Armenia. Still from the film "City of Giants". Although the height of a person, according to the authors’ assumption, reached 2 meters, it still did not reach the “giant”

Movses Khorenatsi (a representative of Armenian feudal historiography, lived in the 5th and early 6th centuries) wrote that the cities of giants were also located in the gorge of the Vorotan River. This is the Syunik region, located in the southeast of Armenia. Here in the mountain village of Khot in 1968 a monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War was built. When the top of the mound was leveled, ancient tombs with unusual remains were discovered. The already mentioned Vazgen Gevorgyan: “The entire population of the village of Khot talks about the skeletons of giants found there. In particular, Razmik Arakelyan many years ago, during excavation work, personally saw the graves of two giants. The village headman, to whom his father showed the exact place, also spoke about this. Everyone who saw it was very surprised at how huge people once lived here. Apparently there was their cemetery there, and this place needs to 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 mountainside many meters deep. Thanks to this, very ancient layers were accessible. The tractor bucket demolished the bottom slab, and then the burial itself was opened, from which the bone of a real giant was extracted. Mikhail Ambartsumyan, at that time personally supervised the work.

Sometimes there are also finds of mammoth skulls, which, due to their structure, are mistaken by many 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 fill it with concrete again and install a beam. When the concrete was broken, they found a flat stone under it, and under the stone a hole was discovered. “And in the hole they found a skull, one eyed, the eye was on the forehead, a 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 took it out of the hole. My husband was advised to take the find to the museum. He took the skull, I don’t know whether he took the rest or not.” This suggests that the bones of mammoths or other animals could be confused with human bones.

There is also a scandal associated with the quoted film “City of Giants”, so a leading researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Ph.D. Maria Borisovna Mednikova sent an open letter to the Kultura TV channel and stated that her words were distorted in the film because she is opposed to 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 “high-mountain 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.

Findings of human skeletons significantly exceeding the size that modern science can imagine does not mean that it was an entire race; it may be more correct to talk about only some of its representatives, who, for their growth, were endowed with divine properties during life, and buried in special stone burial grounds with greater honors than their compatriots who were not touched by all the genetic advantages of the “high mountain type”?

By the way, I can explain the history of this photo, for example:

At first, the scandalous photo was circulated without any details. They appeared only in 2007 in the Indian magazine Hindu Voice.

Where the correspondent reported that the skeleton of an 18-meter-tall giant was discovered in northern India during excavations organized by the National Geographic Society, its Indian branch and with the support of the Indian Army.

The publication emphasized that clay tablets with inscriptions were found along with the skeleton. And from them it followed that the giant belonged to a race of superhumans who were mentioned in the Mahabharata - an Indian epic of 200 BC.

The editor of the magazine - one P. Deivamuthu - then apologized to the National Geographic Society by sending a letter. He allegedly fell for facts obtained from sources that, as it has now become obvious, were not trustworthy.

But the thirst for knowledge could no longer be quenched. Information about the “Indian find” emerged from all the cracks of the Internet with renewed vigor. And, of course, along with a photo of the giant.

In short, the public suspects some kind of conspiracy. And she's right. There really was a conspiracy. It was organized back in 2002.

There are plenty of skeletons like this

As the investigation showed, the photo of the “Indian skeleton” was made by an artistic Photoshop specialist from Canada, a certain IronKite. But not for the sake of malice, but as a form of participation in the annual competition called “Archaeological Anomalies 2”. Where the author was awarded third place (which works were awarded the first and second prizes is not possible to determine now - access to the competition website is closed). The participants were asked to fabricate some amazing archaeological find. Which some did very talentedly. And it fell on fertile soil - many have no doubt that giants once lived on Earth.

Also - no less tall than an Indian

Graves of giants are also found underwater

IronKite reported by mail to National Geographic News that he pursued only highly artistic goals, and had nothing to do with subsequent fools. But he doesn’t want to reveal his name. From sin.

The original photograph was also discovered, which served as a kind of background and archaeological setting for the skeleton. The picture was taken in 2000 in New York's Hyde Park (New York) at the site of a real excavation. The skeleton of a mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant, was discovered here.

Regarding the “Indian giant skeleton,” only one thing remained unclear: whose bones played its role?

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An excavation site that was used to “make” a pot with an Indian skeleton.

At different periods, gigantic remains were discovered all over the world, each of which was immediately credited with the title of the largest human skeleton in the world. Dozens of photographs of the largest skeletons are circulating online, but there is fierce debate about their authenticity. Nevertheless, there are several finds of the largest human skeletons in the world, the origin of which is beyond doubt.

Top 10 largest human skeletons in the world

There are many legends about giants, whose remains are supposedly discovered in different parts of the world. However, most of these messages are fake and do not reflect the real state of affairs.

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The top 10 giant remains include:

The Castelnau giant is the largest bone in the world.
18 skeletons in Wisconsin - a mysterious story of archaeologists.
Giant skull from Peru - there are alternative versions.
A five-meter skeleton from Australia is a discovery of recent years.
The Roman giant is simply tall by today's standards.
Cemetery of Giants in China - considered giants in the Medieval world.
The giantess from Poland is an unusual woman of the Middle Ages.
The giant from Kentucky is not the tallest, but he is famous.
Robert Wadlow is a giant of our time.
The Irish giant - against his last wishes, in the museum.

The Giant of Castelnau is one of the giants of France

The expression "Giant of Castelnau" refers to three parts of the incredibly large human skeleton: the humerus, the tibia, and the femur. According to scientists, the finds were located in a Bronze Age mound, possibly dating back to the Neolithic era. According to archaeologists working on the excavation, the skeleton found may belong to one of the largest people in the world ever known to exist. Based on the size of the skeletal bones of this large man, scientists estimate that he could have been about 3.5 meters tall.

Photo of the remains of the giant from Castelnau

One of the largest human skeletons in the world was discovered by anthropologist Georges Vache de Lapouge in the Bronze Age cemetery at Castelnau-les-Lezes in France in the winter of 1890. The volumes of the bones were more than twice the size of normal skeletal parts. Judging by the usual spacing of anatomical points, they were also nearly twice the length of a normal skeleton.

The bones of the giant from Castelnau were studied at the University of Montpellier and examined by professor of zoology M. Sabatier and professor of paleontology M. Delage, as well as other anatomists. In 1892, the bones were carefully studied by Dr. Paul Louis André Kiener, professor of pathological anatomy at the Montpellier Medical School, who recognized that they represented "a very high race." However, he called them abnormal in size and hypothesized that such a large size of the human skeleton was caused by disease.

It is of interest that in 1894 press reports mentioned a further discovery of bones of human giants discovered in a prehistoric cemetery in Montpellier. Skulls "28, 31 and 32 inches in circumference" were found along with other bones of gigantic size, indicating that they belonged to a race of people ranging in height from 305 to 457 cm, but there is no real evidence for this.

18 skeletons in Wisconsin - number is in doubt

In 1912, the New York Times reported the discovery of 18 of the world's largest human skeletons in an archaeological dig near Lake Delavan in Wisconsin. Their heights ranged from 231 to 304 cm, and their skulls were much larger than those of any race inhabiting America today. They had a double row of teeth, 6 fingers and toes.

Pictured are skeletons of giants from Wisconsin.

Many reports say that the largest human skeletons were sent to the Smithsonian Institution, but officials at the institution deny these claims.

Giant skull from Peru - a dark story with DNA

In one of the Peruvian forests, scientist Renato Davila Riquelmo found one of the largest skeletons known to the world. The bones of the giant are still kept in the Privado Ritos Andinos Museum in Peru: every visitor to the exhibition can see them.

Large skeleton found in Peru considered alien

Scientists around the world have conducted DNA tests based on materials from this skeleton, but reliable data on their results has never been made public. This gives rise to a number of theories about the alien origin of the largest skeleton.

Is the five-meter skeleton from Australia a fake?

A giant human skeleton, reaching 5.3 meters in height, has been discovered near the ancient ruins of the only megalithic civilization discovered in Australia, making the discovery twice as surprising. “Theoretically, a five-meter hominid cannot exist. But how then is this possible? While this discovery is exciting, we are left with more questions than answers,” admits Professor Hans Zimmer from the University of Adelaide.

The world's largest skeleton may be a fake

Some experts have hypothesized that who lived in ancient world the person could suffer from an extreme case of gigantism: a condition caused by the overproduction of growth hormones. Another part of researchers and ordinary Internet users are inclined to believe that this news is fake, so the photo of the giant is carefully studied.

Roman giant - records of the past

At 202 centimeters tall, the man was considered a giant in third-century AD Rome, where men averaged about 167 centimeters tall. However, today such growth characteristics are not surprising, because in modern world most tall man has a height of 251 centimeters.

Nevertheless, such skeletons are discovered extremely rarely, because the fact of gigantism itself is rare: today only about three people per million worldwide suffer from this disease. Changes begin in childhood when malfunctioning pituitary gland causes abnormal growth.

Skeletal bones of a Roman giant

The unusual skeleton was found in 1991 during excavations in the necropolis of Fidenae, an area administered by Rome. Even at the time of the initial excavations, the archaeological department of Rome, which led the project, noted that the discovered human tomb was abnormally long. However, it was only during a later anthropological examination that the bones were also recognized as unusual. Soon after, they were sent for further analysis to the team of Simon Minozzi, who led this archaeological research. To find out whether the skeleton had gigantism, the team examined the bones and found evidence of skull changes that were consistent with a pituitary tumor. It destroys the organ by causing an excess of human growth hormone.

Cemetery of Giants in China - large for the period

In 2016, archaeologists began excavating a late Neolithic settlement at Jiaojia in China, a village in the Shandong province of China. They found many interesting finds there - including the ruins of 104 houses, 205 graves and 20 sacrificial pits - but the latest discovery took experts by surprise. According to scientist Mark Molloy, the bodies of several men ranging in height from 152 to 190 centimeters were discovered in a cemetery in Jiaojia. At first glance, even the minimum values may not seem like anything special, but in fact, men would have been exceptionally tall during the period in which they lived.

5,000-year-old human skeletons from China

The remains, dating back to around 5,000 years ago, were buried in large graves. One of the people found in the cemetery was even taller than his leggy peers: based on the size of the large skeleton, scientists concluded that this person was about 1.9 meters tall. The people at Jiaojia Cemetery would have seemed giants to the average person 5,000 years ago. In Europe, by comparison, the average height of the Neolithic population was about 1.67 meters.

A giantess from Poland - the difficult fate of an unknown giantess

In 2016, archaeologists discovered a large skeleton of a medieval giantess - a 219 cm tall woman. Mysterious remains from the 12th century were discovered buried next to a church on the island of Ostrów Lednicki in Poland. This large skeleton also had one of the largest human skulls ever found.

The largest female skeleton found in Poland

Researchers analyzing what remains of the woman's skeleton say she lived a short life filled with trauma and illness:

the giantess suffered from acromegaly, a rare condition associated with the overproduction of growth hormone from the pituitary gland, which makes the bones of the head especially large;
her spine also showed signs of degenerative joint disease, likely as a result of her enormous growth and body weight.

The location of her burial in the cemetery is also curious. While the heads of all other bodies were buried facing west, her head was located towards the east. Both of her arms were bent rather than fully extended.

Kentucky Giant - Museum Exhibit

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1858 thanks to the generous donation of Thomas Dent Mütter, has an amazing display of human body parts and medical equipment. The collection was originally intended to be used as a teaching tool for surgical students, which is why it is so unusual. Since its founding, the museum has opened its doors to the public so that those interested can view various bones, organs and unusual creatures, as well as ancient medical equipment.

In the photo, Queen Elizabeth examines a large skeleton from Kentucky.

Without a doubt, one of the most impressive items is the largest human skeleton on display in North America. The skeleton, nicknamed the "American Giant" or "Kentucky Giant", measures an impressive 232 cm and is displayed alongside another skeleton of normal height, as well as the skeleton of a dwarf named Mary Ashberry.

Robert Wadlow - a devastating disease

The largest human skeleton in the world, the authenticity of which is certainly not in doubt, was “found” inside a man named Robert Wadlow, the tallest recorded person in history. His height reached a height of 2.72 m, and his weight was more than 200 kg at the time of death: the numerous photographs of this man are truly impressive. He had a problem with his pituitary gland, which caused his skeleton to become so large.

The one in the photo big man world height 2.72 m

Surely many people believe that giants are extremely strong, but most of them are actually quite fragile: the large height and weight of a person does not correspond to the normal load-bearing properties of the human skeleton. So the man with the largest skeleton, Wadlow, died at the age of 22.

Irish giant - controversy surrounding remains

Born in Northern Ireland In the 18th century, a boy named Byrne began to develop rapidly physically during his teenage years. He soon reached a fairly high height of 235 cm, which made him famous all over the world and provided numerous mentions in the media. After gaining fame, he set off with a friend across the Irish Sea in search of fame and fortune, discovering his remarkable human curiosity.

The largest skeleton comes from the 18th century

According to the memoirs of Dr. Thomas Muinzer, who researched Byrne's life, there were many remarkable reports in the newspapers of that time about how he lit his pipe from lamps in the streets in Edinburgh because he was so tall. He arrived in London in his early 20s and continued to exhibit himself in public, collecting a tidy income as crowds flocked to witness his gigantic stature for themselves. Lifetime images of the giant have been preserved, but in the photo you can only see his skeleton.

Documents from the time reported that he told friends he wanted to be buried at sea out of fear that surgeons might locate his body if he was buried in the cemetery. However, despite this, after his death his remains were taken to the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in London, where they were reduced to bare bones. Despite calls from scientists and human rights activists to honor Byrne's last wishes, his large skeleton remains on public display.

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