Where were the first human remains found? Where are the oldest human remains found?

He published the work of an international group of scientists, which included six Russians. It was thanks to their enthusiasm that the scientific community received a unique find at their disposal, and with it the oldest genome of Homo sapiens.

Nobody believed!

This story is full of wonderful coincidences, and just luck. It began with the fact that in 2008 Omsk artist Nikolai Peristov, specializing in bone carving, wandered along the banks of the Irtysh in search of working material - the remains of a bison, mammoth and other prehistoric animals. He arranged such sorties regularly: the banks of the river are destroyed, the earth reveals what has been hidden in it for centuries and millennia. That day, Peristov noticed a bone sticking out of the washed layer, threw it into a bag and brought it home. Yes, just in case.

For two years, the bone lay in the storerooms of the artist, until his acquaintance paid attention to it. Aleksey Bondarev - forensic expert from the regional police department. He is a biologist by training and paleontology is his hobby. Bondarev carefully studied the bone. By appearance it was clear that this was not an animal, and not even a Neanderthal. With a length of 35 cm, the bone most of all resembled a human femur. But what is the age of this person?

Alexey asked for help Yaroslav Kuzmin from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS that in Novosibirsk. He took the find unusually seriously. “To put it simply, he believed that the bone could be very ancient, tens of thousands of years old,” recalls Bondarev. - The fact is that in our area the remains of a man of the Paleolithic era (over 10 thousand years ago) have never been found. And no one expected that they could be found at all. Such scientists did not even come to mind! Archaeologists knew only the ancient sites of Homo sapiens with stone tools and animal bones found on them. In general, it was believed that the first people came to the territory of the Omsk region no earlier than 14 thousand years ago.”

Yaroslav Kuzmin is a well-known specialist in radiocarbon dating (this is one of the methods for determining the age of biological remains). He sent the bone for examination to Oxford University, with which he has been collaborating for a long time. The British were delighted: the analysis showed that the bone material is 45 thousand years old! To date, these are the most ancient human remains, dated directly, and not by indirect evidence (that is, not by the environment in which they were found: tools, household items, etc.). The man from Ust-Ishim (nicknamed after the name of the nearest village) is the oldest member of the genus Homo sapiens found outside of Africa and the Middle East. Yes, even in the north, at the 58th latitude! Scientists believe that it was the cold climate that helped this bone survive.

Omsk artist Nikolai Peristov found a sensation on the river bank. Photo: From the personal archive / Alexey Bondarev

Cradle in Siberia

The discoveries didn't end there. Yaroslav Kuzmin connected geneticists to the case: the precious bone, accompanied by Russian scientists, went to Germany, to Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. They know firsthand about sensations from Siberia: it was at this institute that the DNA of the now famous "Denisov" man from a cave in Altai was studied.

German anthropologists confirmed the conclusions of colleagues about the age of the bone, and in addition, they found perfectly preserved DNA in it - the oldest at the moment. It took more than a year to assemble and read the genome. It turned out that the Ust-Ishim man has 2.5% of the Neanderthal genes - like, in fact, the modern inhabitants of Eurasia. It’s just that his fragments of these genes are longer, foreign DNA is not as widely spaced throughout the genome as ours. Hence the conclusion: the Ust-Ishim lived shortly after the crossing of a man with a Neanderthal, and it happened somewhere 50-60 thousand years ago, along the road of Homo sapiens from Africa to Siberia.

“Now it is clear that the history of the settlement of Asia was somewhat more complicated than previously thought,” emphasizes Yaroslav Kuzmin. - Coming out of Africa, some of our ancestors soon turned north - unlike those who settled in southern Asia. We also managed to find out the diet of the ancient Siberian. He was a hunter. His food was mainly hoofed animals - primitive bison, elk, wild horse, reindeer. But he also ate river fish.

“I think this man looked almost the same as you and me,” adds Alexei Bondarev. - Dress him, comb his hair, put him on the bus - no one will think that this is an ancestor who lived 45 thousand years ago. Well, except that the skin will be darker.

And most importantly, a man from Ust-Ishim turned out to be equally related to Europeans, and Asians, and even the inhabitants of the Andaman Islands - natives who hide from the outside world and do not want to make contact with civilization. They, according to anthropologists, belonged to an early wave of migration from Africa. This means that, even if the Ust-Ishim did not leave direct descendants (scientists do not exclude this), Siberia can be safely called one of the cradles of mankind.

In the tales and legends of almost all the peoples of the Earth there are references to people of great stature - giants. To the fact that they used to live on Earth, whose growth was much higher than that of modern man, indicate the 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 a stone gorge has been passed down from generation to generation. 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 did the locals learn 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 of the 19th century often report finds in different parts of the the globe skeletons of people of abnormally high growth.

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 megantropus. The growth of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Meganthropus are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were found in China. Judging by the fragments of jaws and many teeth found, the growth of Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and the weight was 400 kilograms. Near Basarst, in river 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, 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 of the "big man" measure 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's 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 - at 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 still 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 the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten was not an earthling, he came from star system 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 of the 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.

The ability of people to believe in miracles has long been a reliable source of income for all sorts of scammers. This time the forger was not chasing a long dollar - he worked for the love of art ...

In this article, I would like to analyze in detail a fairly large-scale falsification of the last decade. Its essence is that archaeologists allegedly find the remains of giant people all over the Earth, up to 2, 3, 4 and even 10 meters tall. It has become a tidbit for lovers of various kinds of sensation, conspiracy theories. A lot of sites, starting with those who just love sensations of any kind (very "yellow" sites), and ending with creationist sites, actively publish more and more photos of the "remains" found, "revealing the theory of evolution of official science" demonstrating these very " photographs of giants. Immediately, lovers of everything mystical and mysterious began to put forward versions that it was who built the pyramids, placed the stones of Stonehenge - in a word, created all the ancient Wonders of the World, which supposedly are beyond the power of an ordinary person.

There is nothing surprising in the fact that in our time people believe, to put it mildly, unreliable rumors. I want secrets, I want mysteries, even where there are none. It is not surprising that there are lovers of sensations, but how many there are. By typing the query "giant skeleton" in Google, we will see a sea of \u200b\u200bsites where photos of the "remains" are laid out; hundreds of people in the comments enthusiastically write: “now I believe!” and curse modern science for concealing the truth.

Gunpowder in the fire is added by the fact that in some religions and myths of antiquity giants and giants are mentioned. “So here it is, the lost link!” - exclaim gullible people. Meanwhile, using false facts to prove any, even the most correct hypothesis, can only spoil both your reputation and the credibility of the hypothesis.

Let's take a look at what these amazing "photos" are and where they came from. Let's start with the first and most famous of them.

Return to the Valley of the Giants, a photographic montage depicting an archaeological site of a giant humanoid skeleton, won third place in the 2002 Archaeological Anomalies 2 graphic design competition at www.worth1000. com. . Shortly after publication, the photo was widely circulated on the Internet and, with accompanying articles, was published by some media as evidence of the existence of an ancient race of giants, which is mentioned in the Bible and the myths of many peoples. After the misunderstanding was discovered, the author of the photomontage, known by the pseudonym IronKite, gained some notoriety in the graphic design and anomalous research communities.

Story

In 2004, a photo from an archaeological site of a giant humanoid skeleton was circulated on the Internet and in some print media. Based on the size of the figures of archaeologists, available in the same picture, the length of the skeleton was estimated at 18-24 meters. Early Internet reports claimed that the find was made in the desert in western India by a National Geographic expedition. According to the source, the excavation area has been cordoned off by the Indian army, and all details are classified. The report also spoke of the discovery of stone tablets with ancient Sanskrit inscriptions, according to which the skeletons belonged to the mythical giants Rakshasas, who defied the gods and were destroyed by them.

Another version of this story was published on April 24, 2004 in the Bangladeshi newspaper The New Nation. According to this newspaper, the find was made in the desert in the southeast Saudi Arabia Saudi Aramco's exploration team, which conducted a search for natural gas deposits. It was also claimed that tablets with inscriptions on Arabic, according to which the remains belonged to the representatives of the ancient tribe of Aad, the descendants of those mentioned in the Bible and the Koran Old Testament prophet But I. The tribe defied the plans of Allah and was destroyed by him. The site of the find was cordoned off by Saudi troops, the picture was taken from a military helicopter.

Similar articles were published in the March 2007 issue of the Indian magazine Hindu Voice, published in Mumbai, and later in several other print media.

An elementary examination of the photograph, made by the center for the study of paranormal phenomena Rationalist International, found that there are no independent sources of information about the find, and the picture itself bears traces of software processing using a graphics editor. The most obvious sign of a fake was the different direction and intensity of the shadows cast by the giant skeleton and its surroundings. A more detailed study showed that the photo is a montage of fragments of several images. Apparently, it was a picture of real archaeological excavations, in the central part of which an enlarged image of a human skeleton is mounted.

Later, the source of the photomontage was established.

Society spokesman James Owen conducted an investigation. And I found, pardon the pun, "where the legs grow from" this skeleton.
As the investigation showed, the photo of the giant came from the well-known site worth1000.com, where a competition for graphic design masters called "Archaeological Anomalies" was held. The aim of the contest participants was to create images illustrating fictitious archaeological finds. The site publishes works of various kinds, ranging from frankly humorous to high-quality imitations of photographs of archaeological excavations. The author of the work is a Canadian illustrator, known under the pseudonym IronKite (Russian iron kite), told National Geographic magazine in an email that he did not intend to mislead anyone. However, the image fell on fertile ground - many do not doubt that giants once lived on Earth.

Here is a direct link to the work itself with Giants by IronKite at worth1000.com

Soon one of the original photographs was discovered, which served as material for editing. It was taken on September 16, 2000 in Hyde Park, New York, where a Cornell University paleontological team led by Professor John Chiment excavated the remains of a 14 to 11-year-old mastodon. thousand years.

The National Geographic Society, founded in 1888 in the United States, is one of the oldest in the world. Since that time, it has published the famous National Geographic magazine. And now, keeping up with the era, he also publishes daily news on the Internet on his National Geographic News portal.
Society is the most authoritative organization. She is trusted. This is full of people who believe that the photographs of the giant skeleton that have been circulating on the Internet for several years now are genuine. Excite the imagination and make you believe in the conspiracies of scientists against civilization. After all, the discovery of a gigantic skeleton is "hung" specifically on the geographical society. Allegedly, its specialists participated in the excavations.

Any sane person can easily guess that the photos are fake, says National Geographic News illustration editor Sebastian John. “However, we regularly receive hundreds of inquiries by email from all over the world. Like, tell me, what kind of skeleton is this? True, what did you find? Where is he now? Is it hidden from prying eyes?

National Geographic could not stand it, and in 2007 published rebuttals to these photos - but things are still there. More and more “remains” are being created, and I won’t be surprised if they say to me - “well, look, there are so many photographs! It can't be all fake!" Alas, but all this is really the fruit of the creativity of people who masterfully (and sometimes very badly) own Photoshop. And the beginning of this story surprisingly coincides in time with the publication of creativity on worth1000.com. A lot of photos are easily explained by a lot of "workers" looking for "remains" in the Photoshop environment.

The trailblazer IronKite seems to be followed by followers. And now the Internet is full of giant skeletons.

These classic "photos of giants" are currently literally circulating from the bottom of the yellow site to another, through email, blogs and forums in order to excite the imagination of the ignorant layman.

Many do not doubt the authenticity of the images. In fact, the "giant skeleton" is not a photograph of real discoveries. However, observations show that high quality The fake images, combined with the vaguely plausible explanations that accompany them, seem to be enough to convince many recipients that the "discoveries" are genuine.

By the way, the work of IronKite was even shown on YouTube. The video creator uses the giant IronKite skeleton, along with other questionable images, as "proof" that giants once lived on Earth. The well-documented deception with the images, in addition to the number of logical flaws, has caused the series to sack from YouTube users.

Even if you believe that a race of giants existed on Earth, you can be sure that these photographs do not reflect some of their remains. They take their original origins from the Worth1000 competition, and the image's status as a purely fictional "archaeological discovery" is understandable.

Not only do objects cast shadows in different sides so the skeleton does not fit into the panorama of the image at all due to the difference in angles. The skeleton has no perspective, most likely due to the fact that the source was a photograph of an ordinary skeleton, taken vertically, while the landscape in which it was placed was taken at an angle with perspective.

Giant Atlantean Skeleton Found in the Ocean Again!

1. The color border on the left side of the picture immediately catches your eye. The skeleton is simply glued onto the background with a coral reef.

2. Bottom right part flocks of fish are translucent - this indicates a low professional level of Photoshop. Instead of carefully cutting out the fish on a new layer, he applied feathering and reduced the transparency of the layer.

3. And as always, symmetry breaking. The size of the skull is disproportionate to the size of the femurs. Apparently, to emphasize the size of the skeleton, the skull was enlarged.

A seasoned photoshopper who knows his business worked here. He burned out on ignorance of the anatomy of the human body. The size of the vertebrae is too huge for this size of the skull.

The edges of the pasted black-and-white image of the skeleton into the pit are clearly visible. In addition, the quality of the source with skeletons is much worse than the main image, this is especially noticeable when zoomed in.

Verdict: Nice work in Photoshop.

Allegedly, various finds of giant skulls, which in themselves are very mediocre fakes, when comparing images, provide more information.

It is the same regular size skull, if we take both skulls and compare them as shown in the picture, we will see that they are identical. Even if we imagine for a second that these are the same excavations, then why did the skull change its size by 3 times? .

On the left in the photograph, the skull is larger than the seated person, and given that the person is closer to us than the skull, then in reality the skull would be even larger.
On the right, we also see a skull, but this time it is decently smaller than a seated person, while the skull is in the foreground, if placed next to a person, it will be 2 times smaller.

In the left picture, the skull literally sank into the plane of the earth, the frame hanging in the air smiles no less. Besides, where has it been seen that unique finds are literally trampled underfoot?

Verdict: not the best fakes of a giant, using an ordinary skull.

Considering various options for fake giants, I became curious if I could repeat something similar using only the most basic skills in a graphics program. Adobe Photoshop. I decided to create some similar images.

As you can see, creating something like this is not difficult.

Note: Walking on the Internet "photos of giants" highlights their individuality. You won't find a "giant skeleton photo" taken several times from different angles. Single images everywhere. It is hard to believe that such a unique find was taken only once from one position. This once again confirms the individuality of the work on the production of "photographs of giants". The creators of the site Worth1000.com simply did not have the goal of misleading the public, so each of them limited himself to a single work, it is not surprising that the network does not have diverse images of at least one giant, "filmed" from different angles. In addition, creating such an image is much more difficult.

Another fact is not in favor of the giants. Giant human bones are not exhibited in any museum in the world. But enthusiasts, led by historian Michael Baigent, author of the acclaimed book Forbidden Archeology, blame traditional science for this. Like, unique finds were specially hidden. More from sin. Because otherwise we would have to change our views on evolution, and on the entire history of mankind.

All the absurdity of this "argument" can be realized after reading the article
Pseudoscience as it is

Often, from parascientific works, one can learn about some “forbidden” discoveries that threaten established ideas and are therefore hidden from the public.
Without exception, all such messages are fiction. A researcher who stumbles upon something truly remarkable will seek to report the find in order to immortalize his name through the ages. If, for some reason, he delays publication, envious colleagues will certainly not miss the opportunity to attribute the discovery to themselves. Even if the government interferes, for some reason wanting to hide the truth, then unfriendly states, having found out the secret with the help of their special services, will immediately stop this attempt.

And yet there is something gigantic in museums - teeth. In appearance - almost human, but 6 times larger than ours. First discovered in 1935 by the Dutch paleontologist Koenigswald in ... one of the pharmacies in Hong Kong. According to estimates, their owners would have to weigh 350-400 kilograms.
Many "giants" still "trump" these teeth, attributing them to mythical giants - the predecessors of people. However, it is known that in 1956 in South China, in the province of Guangxi, archaeologists dug up three huge jaws with exactly the same teeth at once. And they determined that they belonged to anthropoid apes - the so-called Gigantopithecus. Yes, these primates were huge - almost four meters. Kind of like mini King Kongs. But not by people.

And what about myths?

Giant enthusiasts continue to trumpet about the former existence of giants, they first of all refer to countless myths. Naturally, it is difficult to find a people who would not add up legends about giants - one listing of their national names would take up a whole book page.
What are myths? Here are the lines from the Bible: "At that time there were giants on earth, especially since the time when the sons of God began to enter into the daughters of men, and they began to give birth ..."
Elsewhere in the Bible, there is a "report" of the scouts sent by Moses to Palestine: "... There we saw giants ... from a gigantic family; and we were ... before them, like locusts ...".

Another argument is the strange cyclopean buildings. And the most amazing of them is the Baalbek Terrace in Lebanon, located about a hundred kilometers from Beirut. At its base, archaeologists discovered monolithic stone blocks measuring 21 by 5 by 4 meters. Some weigh 800 tons. And they are fitted so neatly that it is difficult to stick even a needle between the edges. Who, if not the giant tilers, could lay them down?

However, according to skeptics, Baalbek is not the best argument in favor of the existence of giants, says anthropologist Andrei Grinevsky. - Yes, no one can yet explain how the 800-ton stone blocks were laid. But to assume that they were dragged by 20-meter giants is naive. With such growth, you can grab a monolith with a maximum of six. In total, more than 100 tons "per brother". Do not lift.

There are imprints of huge feet, - The most famous of them is located in South Africa. It was found by local farmer Stoffel Coetzi at the beginning of the last century. A “left footprint” is imprinted into an almost vertical wall to a depth of about 12 centimeters. Its length is 1m 28 centimeters. They assure: "inherited" a man about 10 meters tall. Stepped here hundreds of millions of years ago, when the rock was soft. Then it froze, turned into granite and stood upright due to geological processes.
In my opinion, the footprint only looks like a human one. But there are no clear signs. It could also be left by a stone that later fell out. And a dinosaur.

What if giants really lived on Earth?

Excavations show that there was a time when giants lived on Earth. And not lizards, but mammals. Some died out long ago - in the last ice age. Others - much later - about a thousand years BC. And people could see them
giant short-faced bear,
living in Alaska and Chukotka, reached almost 5 meters if it stood on its hind legs. By the way, I ran on them at a speed of almost 70 kilometers per hour.

No less than a fast bear was a 5-ton giant sloth.

And up to the size of the current hippopotamus, beavers and rats waved. In a word, gigantism is not alien to nature. So why should humans be the exception?

The answer lies in the very structure and proportions of the human body. If you look at the typical representatives of giants (dinosaurs, elephants and others), then they all have in common: the horizontal arrangement of the spine, a relatively small head, the center of mass is concentrated in the lower part of the body.

The legs of a typical mammal support the mass of its body, and as the mass of the animal increases, the strength of the support should increase accordingly. Suppose that all the linear dimensions of the animal have doubled. The mass of such an enlarged animal will then increase by a factor of 8, i.e., as a cube of linear dimensions, which should affect the strength of the supporting structures. To prevent these structures from collapsing, they transverse section should increase in proportion to an eightfold increase in the load, but if all dimensions are simply doubled, the cross-sectional area of the bones will increase only 4 times. This is clearly not enough, and in order to support eight times the increased weight, the bones must increase disproportionately.

A three-fold increase in linear dimensions gives a 27-fold increase in mass, and the cross-sectional area of \u200b\u200bthe bone should be increased by a factor of 27.

Measurement of the ultimate bone strength of mammals of different weights from 0.05 to 700 kg (14,000-fold difference) did not reveal any significant differences (233±53 MN/m2 in small animals and 200±28 in large animals) (Biewener, 1982) .

Moreover, the mass of the skeleton of a mammal does not fit into the schemes that take into account only gravitational loads. During movement, there are always forces due to acceleration or deceleration, which twist and bend the skeleton, and its elements must withstand these forces and not break, first of all under the influence of bends.

Those. if a person has linear dimensions of 20 meters (i.e., more than 10 times the norm), then his volume (and mass) increases by 1000 (10 cubed) times, i.e. it weighs about 80 tons (80,000 kg). And this is not compatible with life, because it will simply be crushed (even in the supine position, the chest will collapse) with our gravity.

Thus ... Yes, there may be giants, but they will not look like people, and their skeletons will not look like human ones. Let's take another simple example. If a person with a height of 180 cm and a weight of 80 kg is quadrupled to 720 cm, then his weight will be 5120 kg, and the bones with such dimensions in human proportions will be optimally adapted only for 1280 kg, that is, the additional mass above the optimum will be 3840 kg (i.e. area the cross section of the bones will increase by 16 times, but the body weight will increase by 64 times), the bones simply cannot withstand such an overload, this is equivalent to the fact that a person 180 cm tall and weighing 80 kg, with the same muscles and bones, will hang a load of 240 kg for life, and what will happen to his joints and spine? I mean that with gigantic sizes, the cross section of the bones should proportionally be much larger, depending on the magnification factor. Therefore, if there were human giants, then their skeletons will look completely different from the photoshop photos from photoshop sites. That's all. Well, the skeletons of giants were indeed found - these are dinosaurs, which, with such dimensions, had powerful bones and could not do without a tail, and their center of gravity is completely different, as well as the principle of building a skeleton for such a mass.

What do giants suffer from?

In ancient times, myths and legends associated high growth with some kind of superpowers, and "giants" have always enjoyed great respect. However, according to doctors, high growth can result in poor health - and this is especially true for women. Recently, at the age of only 53, the tallest woman in the world, Sandy Allen, died - and, alas, she suffered from many chronic diseases.

The height of American Sandy Allen was 2 meters 32 centimeters - that is, three centimeters higher than that of the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming.

She was only slightly inferior to other tallest people in the world - Ukrainian Leonid Stadnik (2 meters 53 centimeters) and Tunisian Radhuan Charbib (2 meters 36 centimeters). The cause of Allen's death is still unknown, but in the hospital in which she was, she was given numerous dangerous diagnoses.

Among them are diabetes, a tendency to infections and kidney failure. In addition, it was difficult for her to walk, so she spent the last years of her life in a wheelchair.

A person is destroyed by gravity - after all, his muscles and bones are simply not adapted for such growth. In such people, the proportions of the skull are disturbed, the feet and hands increase to enormous sizes, the tongue becomes huge - and because of this, the giants very often suffer from shortness of breath.

Conclusion

Today, on the Internet, it is not difficult to find sites full of bright headlines about the discovery of the millennium, about a hidden sensation. Demand creates supply. People believe, to put it mildly, unreliable rumors that excite the imagination. I want secrets, I want mysteries, even where there are none. It is not surprising that there are lovers of sensations, but how many there are.

However, if you carefully approach the issue of giants under consideration, analyze information and elementary logical calculations, an unambiguous conclusion suggests itself that, for certain reasons, the existence of people of gigantic growth is simply impossible, it is not surprising that there is no real evidence of the former existence of giants. Some myths, dubious evidence and fraud.

Recently, archaeologists have discovered in the Kuban the remains of ancient people of gigantic growth. They were buried about 4,000 years ago... We are talking about the phenomenon of giant people who lived in the Caucasus and other anomalous phenomena with Vadim Chernobrov, coordinator of the Kosmopoisk research public association. "Grave of the Giants" - What other anomalous phenomena was marked this year? - Firstly, our expedition visited a man who was struck by ball lightning 5 times. He lives in the Krasnodar Territory, in Ust-Labinsk. We went to see him right after the fifth "attack" of lightning. They took the T-shirt in which he was at the moment of impact. It is burned, the edges of the hole are melted,
and we hope that fragments of the substance of which ball lightning is composed remained there. We are going to study it in the laboratory.

Secondly,
we were in Ingushetia, where, after a mountain collapse, a cave was opened, which
the locals call it the cave of the genies. It must be said that for many
Muslims are very real entities, they believe in them. To this cave
they are afraid to come at night: people there begin to behave inappropriately,
for some reason they take off their pants, feel themselves suspended by their legs, etc.
after the collapse of the rock, riot police visited this place, climbed inside,
but they suddenly became afraid. They got out and threw grenades into the cave. To
Unfortunately (or fortunately), we did not find the genies in the cave (laughs).

- you a few years ago
discovered in the Caucasus "grave of giants". Have you been able to explore it? How
once recently there was a message that in the Kuban, archaeologists stumbled upon
burials of very tall people.

In the Caucasus, legends about giant people
distributed everywhere. They are called Narts, there are legends about them.
almost all the peoples of the North Caucasus.

That grave that we found a few years
back, is an artificial bulk hill. When looking at
he has no doubt that this is a grave, and a gigantic creature.
The dimensions of the stepped pyramidal mound are comparable to those of Egypt
pyramids, only one platform at the top is 80 meters long.
It is oriented strictly along the east-west line, which is typical for
many ancient graves. Earlier we probed the hill with a geolocator.
The device showed that there are “foreign” inclusions in the depths. Excavations
have not been held yet, but this year they were not needed: we were called
to a similar place where a mudflow opened a stone-lined underground
cavity. This is in Kabardino-Balkaria, near the Georgian border. We
descended into the cavity on a rope and found many skulls and
bones. These are not the remains of giants, but definitely the skulls belonged to
very tall people. This means that the Caucasian legends about giant ancestors are not
groundless.

Russian scientists have found the remains of giant people in the Caucasus

The Caucasus has something to be famous for, except for
their strict traditions. Russian scientists for the first time in the history of the world
science managed to discover what was only supposed earlier in the known
archaeological laboratories. We are talking about giant people.

giant people
nevertheless existed, and direct evidence of this is the skeletons,
found in the Meshoko cave. A huge grave was discovered by a local
population, which was immediately reported to the authorities. Archaeologists who arrived
to the place of discovery, confirmed that the bones really belong
Homo sapiens. Previously, the entrance to the cave was blocked by rocks, but
the recent collapse in the mountains opened to mankind a large archaeological
riddle.

On March 29, experts cleared the remains of the giants a little and already said
their exact height. Its performance ranges from 3.5 to 4 meters. But it's still
Not all! The corresponding growth also suggested the presence of a huge cranial
boxes. This means giant humans could be a lot smarter.
Einstein and more capable than Leonardo da Vinci.

When the jaws of giant people were examined, it was discovered
a unique phenomenon for mankind - two rows of upper and lower teeth.
Of course, this is physiologically impossible in the mouth of a modern person,
therefore, the giant people had a beveled chin, which made it possible to fit
all teeth in the mouth. At the same time, the skull of a giant man has a height of 43.5
up to 55.7 cm.

Archaeologists cannot yet give more detailed comments. Skeletons
are now clearing the ground and sent to the laboratory of the Krasnodar
the edges. As WellNews.ru correspondents were told, the find
US scientists are interested. Perhaps some of the skeletons will be shipped
for research in the American state.

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Before the flood people were giants

3.02.2012 02:40

There is irrefutable evidence that giant people lived on Earth. Archaeological finds of different years, found around the world, confirm this fact.

Historical chronicles of the 19th century often report finds in different parts of the world of skeletons of people of abnormally tall stature.

In 1821, in the United States in Tennessee, the ruins of an ancient stone wall were found, and under it were two human skeletons 215 centimeters tall. In Wisconsin, during the construction of a granary in 1879, huge vertebrae and skull bones were found "of incredible thickness and size," according to a newspaper article.

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

In 1890, in Egypt, archaeologists found a stone sarcophagus with a clay coffin inside, which contained the mummies of a two-meter red-haired woman and a baby. The facial features and build of the mummies differed sharply from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of a man and a woman with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovelok (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The growth of a mummified woman during her lifetime was two meters, and men - about three meters.

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basharst, Australia, jasper miners often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. The race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, anthropologists called meganthropus. The growth of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Megantropuses 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.

In 1971, in Queensland, farmer Stephen Walker, while plowing his field, came across a large fragment of a jaw with teeth five centimeters high. In 1979, in Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains, locals found a huge stone protruding above the surface of the stream, on which one could see the imprint of part of a huge foot with five fingers. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 cm long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man of six meters in height. Near Malgoa, three huge footprints 60 centimeters long and 17 wide were found. The giant's step length was measured 130 centimeters. Traces were preserved in the petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is considered correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 cm long and the width of the foot is 25 cm. Obviously, the Australian Aborigines were not the first inhabitants of the continent. It is interesting that in their folklore there are legends about giant people who once lived in these territories.

Other evidence of giants

In 1877, near Eureka, Nevada, prospectors were working for gold panning in a deserted, hilly region. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out above the ledge of the cliff. People climbed a rock and were surprised to find the human bones of the foot and lower leg, along with the patella. The bone was immured in the rock, and the prospectors freed it from the rock with picks. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers delivered it to Evreka. The stone, in which the rest of the leg was embedded, was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which betrayed their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of a knee joint and intact bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and came to the conclusion that the leg undoubtedly belonged to a person. But the most intriguing aspect of the find was the size of the leg - 97 centimeters from the knee to the foot. The owner of this limb during his lifetime had a height of 3 meters 60 centimeters.

In 1936, the German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shores of Lake Elisey in Central Africa. 12 men buried in a mass grave had a height of 350 to 375 centimeters during their lifetime. Curiously, their skulls had sloping chins and two rows of upper and lower teeth.

There is evidence that during the Second World War in Poland, during the burial of the executed, a fossilized skull 55 centimeters high was found, that is, almost three times more than that of a modern adult. The giant to whom the skull belonged had very proportional features and was at least 3.5 meters tall.

giant skulls

Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on the popular 1960s American show Tonight, once shared with the public a curious story about a letter he received from a certain Alan McShir. The author of the letter in 1950 worked as a bulldozer operator on the construction of a road in Alaska. He reported that the workers found two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the grave mounds. The skulls were 58 cm high and 30 cm wide. Ancient giants had a double row of teeth and disproportionately flat heads. Each skull had a neat round hole in the upper part. It should be noted that the custom of deforming the skulls of babies in order to make the heads become elongated as they grow, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger than those of modern humans. The length of the leg bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.

In South Africa, in diamond mining in 1950, a fragment of a huge skull 45 centimeters high was discovered. Above the superciliary arches were two strange protrusions resembling small horns. Anthropologists, in whose hands the find fell, determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.

There is reliable evidence of the finds of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and on the islands of Oceania.

At the beginning of the 16th century, one discovery made the whole French kingdom speak of itself: a complete skeleton of a man of gigantic stature was found, who lived in a very specific era. It was the king of the Cimbri, one of the two tribes attacking Gaul, who was defeated by the Roman general Marius. Nicolas Habicot published in 1613 "A Dissertation on the Skeleton of the Giant Teutobochus, King of the Cimbri". This skeleton really made a strong impression, because it belonged to a man 25 feet tall. About the find, which was considered genuine, for a long time that was all that was said, and the alleged skeleton of "Teutoboch" occupied its rightful place in the Museum of Natural History for several generations. This was also believed in the 19th century, but Cuvier, approaching his research more carefully, discovered a cunning hoax. The famous skeleton, submitted in September 1842 for consideration to the Academy of Sciences, turned out to be made up of real fossil bones, but these were not human bones at all: they were the bones of ... a mastodon, that is, a species of prehistoric giant elephant that disappeared even before the appearance of mammoths. This means that the dexterous "needleworker" simply figured out how to give the bones a "standing" position, so that the growth and posture of the skeleton resembled the backbone of a person.

It is also usually noted that the presence of giant monuments does not at all speak in favor of the actual existence of giants. Pyramids and megaliths are certainly impressive, but there is no reason to believe that their creators were of gigantic stature. After all, the cathedral in Strasbourg is also a huge building, but nevertheless it was built by people of quite normal size, they just possessed perfect technology.

And yet there are some very intriguing archaeological discoveries. Archaeologist Burkhalter during excavations in Moravia discovered a stone tool, the dimensions of which exceeded three by four meters, and the weight was equal to three or four pounds! It was quite obviously a used tool, and not at all a symbolic piece of household utensils; it is clear that the presence of a votive ax would no more prove the existence of giants than the discovery of huge statues in an ancient temple. But there is much better evidence: an entire city was found in Tiaguanaco, built for people whose normal height was gigantic - three or four meters.

Let us give the floor to our friend Marcel Moreau: “Humanity keeps in its atavistic memory the memories of these giants of the highest intelligence, descended from the gods, giants who guided and taught people. Humanity remembers paradise, lost from the very beginning, about the initial high initiation, followed by the fall.

Here is some information that recently appeared on the Internet: The Smithsonian Institution admitted to destroying thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900s.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the release to the Smithsonian of classified documents dating back to the early 1900s proving that the organization was involved in a major historical cover-up of evidence showing that gigantic human remains in the tens of thousands were found across America and destroyed on the orders of high-ranking officials for defending the dominant chronology of human evolution that existed at the time.

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

New details surfaced during the trial when a number of Smithsonian insiders acknowledged the existence of documents that supposedly prove the destruction of tens of thousands of human skeletons ranging in size from 6 to 12 feet tall, according to AIAA spokesman James Charward. ;), the existence of which traditional archeology, for various reasons, does not want to recognize.

Let's find out more about this...

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

The turning point in the case was the demonstration of a human femur 1.3 meters long as evidence of the existence of such giant human bones. This evidence blew a hole in the defense of the institute's lawyers, as the bone was stolen from the organization by a high-ranking curator in the mid-1930s, who kept it all his life and wrote a written confession on his deathbed about the cover-up operations of the Smithsonian Institution.

“It's terrible what they do to people,” he writes in his letter. “We hide the truth about the ancestors of mankind, about the giants who inhabited the earth, which are mentioned in the bible, as well as other ancient texts.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Institute to release classified information about anything related to “destruction of evidence relating to pre-European culture” as well as elements “associated with larger than normal human skeletons.”

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

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 finds in different parts of the world of skeletons of people of abnormally tall stature.

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

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

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basharst, Australia, jasper miners often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. The race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, anthropologists called megantropus. The growth of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Meganthropus are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were found in China Judging by the fragments of jaws and many teeth found, the growth of Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and the weight was 400 kilograms Near Basarst, in river deposits, there were stone artifacts of enormous weight and size - clubs, plows , chisels, knives and axes. Modern Homo sapiens would hardly be able to work with tools weighing from 4 to 9 kilograms.

In 1971, in Queensland, farmer Stephen Walker, while plowing his field, came across a large fragment of a jaw with teeth five centimeters high. In 1979, in Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains, locals found a huge stone protruding above the surface of the stream, on which one could see the imprint of part of a huge foot with five fingers. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 cm long. It follows that the imprint was left by a man of six meters in height
Near Malgoa, three huge footprints were found, 60 centimeters long, 17 wide. The giant's step length was measured 130 centimeters. Traces were preserved in the petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is considered correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 cm long and the width of the foot is 25 cm. Obviously, the Australian Aborigines were not the first inhabitants of the continent. It is interesting that in their folklore there are legends about giant people who once lived in these territories.

Other evidence of giants

giant skulls

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 resembling small horns. Anthropologists, in whose hands the find fell, determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.

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

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

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

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

Ruben Mnatsakanyan, an independent researcher mentioned in an interview for the City of Giants program (Culture TV channel) that he discovered bones that were very large, the length of the entire skeleton was approximately 4 m 10 cm. “I carried the skull in my hands and could see in front of me no closer than 2 meters. That was his size. The lower leg was higher than my lower back, it was about 1 m 15 cm. This bone was also not easy. In 1984, a new plant was being built near the city of Sisian. Tractors were digging the foundation. Suddenly one of them, discarding a layer of earth, stopped. An ancient burial was opened before the observers, where the remains of a very big man. The burial, in which the second giant lay, was littered with huge stones from above. Up to the middle of the ribs, the skeleton was covered with earth, there was a sword along the body, with two hands he held its handle, which was made of bone. Before that, I thought that the giants lived in ancient times. Maybe I would not have paid attention to it, but the sword was made of metal, because along the whole body there was a layer of rust left from iron.

Pavel Avetisyan- The director of the Institute of Archeology claims that on the territory of Gyumri, in the area of the Black Fortress, huge skulls and even entire skeletons of the ancient period were found, which they showed him. “I was just taken aback, because, probably, the thumb of such a person would be thicker than my hand. I myself participated in the excavations and often met the remains of people who were much taller than me. Of course, I won’t name their height for sure, but more than 2 meters. Because the discovered tibia or hip bone, when I applied it to my leg, was much longer.

Human bone found at excavations in Armenia. Shot from the film "City of Giants". Although human growth, according to the authors, reached 2 meters, it still did not reach the “giant”

Movses Khorenatsi(a representative of Armenian feudal historiography, lived in the 5th-early 6th centuries) wrote that the cities of the giants were also located in the gorge of the Vorotan River. This is the Syunik region, located in the southeast of Armenia. Here in the mountain village of Khot in 1968 they built a monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. When the top of the mound was leveled, ancient tombs with unusual remains were opened. already mentioned Vazgen Gevorgyan: “The entire population of the village of Khot talks about the skeletons of giants found there. In particular, many years ago, Razmik Arakelyan personally saw the graves of two giants during earthworks. The headman of the village also told about this, to whom his father showed the exact place. Everyone who saw it was very surprised at what huge people once lived here. There apparently was their cemetery, and this place should be explored.

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

Mikhail Ambartsumyan, a former headman of the village: “I saw that a small hole had opened, lined with flat stones on the sides. There I found a leg bone: from the knee to the foot, about 1.20 cm long, I even called the driver, showed him, and he is a tall guy. We tried to see what else was in this hole, but it was too deep, and it was already dark, it was not visible. So they left it. Then, in the same hole, I found a karas, that is, a huge jug, but, unfortunately, when I tried to pull it out, it broke. In height, the carp reached about 2 meters.

Sometimes there are also finds of mammoth skulls, which, due to their structure, are often mistaken for “one-eyed skulls”. Seda Hakobyan, a resident of Yeghvard mentioned that she once decided to break the concrete floor on the balcony, under the column, in order to pour concrete again and put a beam. When the concrete was broken, a flat stone was found under it, and a hole was found under the stone. “And in the pit they found a skull, one-eyed, the eye was on the forehead, the mouth, and a small hole from the nose, very small. And there were also legs, very long, both together probably about 3 meters. From the bottom to the waist, the length reached 3 m. They got it out of the pit. My husband was advised to take the find to the museum. He took the skull, I don’t know if he took the rest or not.” This suggests that the bones of mammoths or other animals may have been confused with human bones.

A scandal is also connected with the quoted film "City of Giants", so the leading researcher of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History, Ph.D. Maria Borisovna Mednikova addressed an open letter to the Kultura TV channel and stated that her words were misrepresented in the film, since she is an opponent of the existence of a “race of giants”. As a result, the program began to be broadcast without her interview. In general, M.B. Mednikova expressed very interesting thoughts, noting that the so-called "alpine type" of man has always been "head and shoulders above" his fellows. Both the Caucasus and the territory of Armenia are one of the centers of tallness, so the appearance here of people taller than the average highlander of that time is quite normal.

Finds of human skeletons significantly exceeding the size that can be imagined modern science does not yet mean that it was a whole race, it may be more correct to talk only about some of its representatives, endowed with divine properties during their lifetime, and buried in special stone burials with greater honors than their compatriots, who were not touched by the hand of all genetic advantages of the "alpine type"?

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

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

Where the correspondent reported that the skeleton of a giant 18 meters tall was discovered in northern India during excavations organized by the National 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 that were mentioned in the Mahabharata (Mahabharata) - an Indian epic of 200 BC.

The journal's editor, one P. Deivamuthu, later apologized to the National Geographic Society by sending a letter. Say, he fell for the facts obtained from sources, which, as it has now become obvious, were not trustworthy.

But the thirst for knowledge was already unsatisfied. Information about the "Indian find" climbed out of all Internet slots with new force. And, of course, along with a photo of a giant.

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

There are so many skeletons

As the investigation showed, the photo specifically of the "Indian skeleton" was made by an artistic photoshop specialist from Canada, a certain IronKite. But not for malicious intent, but in the form of participation in the annual competition called "Archaeological Anomalies 2". Where the author was awarded the third place (which works were awarded the first and second prizes, it is not possible to determine now - access to the competition website is closed). Participants were asked to fabricate some amazing archaeological find. Some of them were very talented. And it fell on fertile ground - many do not doubt that giants once lived on Earth.

IronKite reported by mail to National Geographic News that it was only for highly artistic purposes, and had nothing to do with subsequent fools. But he does not want to reveal his name. From sin.

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

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

And the trailblazer IronKite seems to be followed by followers. And now the Internet is full of giant skeletons.

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