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Smithsonian Institution (a research and educational institute founded by the US Congress and its museum complex) admitted to destroying thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900s.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the release to the Smithsonian of classified documents dating back to the early 1900s proving that the organization was involved in a major historical cover-up of evidence showing that tens of thousands of gigantic human remains were found across America and destroyed on the orders of high-ranking officials for defending the dominant theory of human evolution according to Darwin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Australian finds

In 1930, near Basharst, Australia, jasper miners often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. The race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, anthropologists called megantropus. The growth of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Meganthropus are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were found in China Judging by the 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 meganthropus, excavated at a depth of up to three meters from the surface of the earth. Australian researchers found, among other things, a petrified molar 67 mm high and 42 mm wide. The owner of the tooth had to be at least 7.5 meters tall and weigh 370 kilograms! Hydrocarbon analysis determined the age of the finds, amounting to nine million years.

In 1971, in Queensland, farmer Stephen Walker, while plowing his field, came across a large fragment of a jaw with teeth five centimeters high. In 1979, in Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains, locals found a huge stone 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.

Three huge footprints 60 centimeters long and 17 wide were found near Malgoa. The giant's step length was measured 130 centimeters. Traces were preserved in the petrified lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is considered correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Maclay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 cm long and the width of the foot is 25 cm. Obviously, the Australian Aborigines were not the first inhabitants of the continent. It is interesting that in their folklore there are legends about giant people who once lived in these territories.

Other evidence of giants

In one of the old books, entitled "History and Antiquity", now kept in the library of Oxford University, there is an account of the discovery of a giant skeleton, made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried to a depth of four yards and is in full military dress. His sword and battle ax rest beside 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, near Eureka, Nevada, prospectors were working for gold panning in a deserted, hilly region. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out above the ledge of the cliff. People climbed a rock and were surprised to find the human bones of the foot and lower leg, along with the patella. The bone was immured in the rock, and the prospectors freed it from the rock with picks. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers delivered it to Evreka. The stone, in which the rest of the leg was embedded, was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which betrayed their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of a knee joint and intact bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and came to the conclusion that the leg undoubtedly belonged to a person. But the most intriguing aspect of the find was the size of the leg - 97 centimeters from the knee to the foot. The owner of this limb during his lifetime had a height of 3 meters 60 centimeters. Even more mysterious was the age of the quartzite in which the fossil was found - 185 million years, the era of dinosaurs. Local newspapers vied with each other to report the sensation. One of the museums sent researchers to the place of discovery in the hope of finding the rest of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing more was found.

In 1936, the German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shores of Lake Elisey in Central Africa. 12 men buried in 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.

Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on the popular American show Tonight in the 60s, once shared with the public a curious story about a letter he received from a certain Alan McShir. The author of the letter in 1950 worked as a bulldozer operator on the construction of a road in Alaska. He reported that the workers found two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the grave mounds. The skulls were 58 cm high and 30 cm wide. Ancient giants had a double row of teeth and disproportionately flat heads. Each skull had a neat round hole in the upper part. It should be noted that the custom of deforming the skulls of babies in order to make the heads become elongated as they grow, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger than those of modern humans. The length of the leg bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.

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

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

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

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

Artsrun Hovsepyan, director 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 local residents found skulls and leg bones of very large sizes, almost the size of a person. According to him: “Once it was last autumn (2010) and 2 years ago (2009), on the territory of our village, where the grave of St. Barbara is located.”

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

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

Movses Khorenatsi (representative of Armenian feudal historiography, lived in the 5th-early 6th centuries) wrote that the cities of the giants were also located in the gorge of the Vorotan River. This is the Syunik region, located in the southeast of Armenia. Here in the mountain village of Khot in 1968 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 opened. The already mentioned Vazgen Gevorgyan: “The entire population of the village of Khot talks about the skeletons of giants found there. In particular, many years ago, Razmik Arakelyan personally saw the graves of two giants during earthworks. The 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, 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 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 pour concrete again and put a beam. When the concrete was broken, a flat stone was found under it, and a hole was found under the stone. “And in the pit they found a skull, one-eyed, the eye was on the forehead, the mouth, and a small hole from the nose, very small. And there were also legs, very long, both together probably about 3 meters. From the bottom to the waist, the length reached 3 m. They got it out of the pit. My husband was advised to take the find to the museum. He took the skull, I don’t know if he took the rest or not.” This suggests that the bones of mammoths or other animals may have been confused with human bones.

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

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

In Sri Lanka, on the island of Ceylon, there is a cone-shaped mountain 2240 meters high, which is revered by adherents of all four world religions. The reason for this veneration is the imprint of a human foot in the rock at the very top. According to legend, this mountain is located next to paradise. Thousands of pilgrims climb Mount Adam - this is the name of the peak - during the dry season: Buddhists, Hindus, Christians and Muslims. Since climbing under the scorching rays of the sun is too difficult a test, the pilgrimage is made at night. The shortest path involves overcoming 5000 steep steps.

The size of the imprint of a human foot on the top is quite unusual: length - 160 centimeters, width - 75.

Legends of giants are spread all over the world. Three-meter people are mentioned in the epics of many peoples. Some believe that gigantic structures, like the English Stonehenge, are the graves of giants buried at colossal depths. Throughout human history, evidence has been found that once upon a time incredibly tall people really lived on Earth.

Race of giants

So, in 1931, an imprint of a gigantic human foot was discovered in Mexico City. The existence of a race of giants is also evidenced by eyewitness accounts who traveled in the 16th century in Patagonia (South America).

In an ancient burial ground in the state of Ohio (USA), a huge copper ax weighing about 30 kilograms was found. Another ax was found stuck in the ground in the US state of Wisconsin. Its weight and dimensions leave no doubt - only a very tall person, who also possessed remarkable strength, could work with such a tool. This ax is now in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society.

Soviet archaeologists in the 60s, during excavations in Siberia, became the owners of another unique find: dinosaur bones with a huge arrowhead sticking out of them.

footprints in the sand

Not far from the city of Carson City (Nevada, USA), prints of a whole chain of bare footprints were found in sandstone. The prints are very clear, and even to a non-specialist it is clear that these are human footprints. The only thing that confuses scientists is that the length of the foot, forever imprinted in sandstone, is almost 60 centimeters! The age of the find is about 248 million years!

But the imprint of a human foot, discovered in Turkmenistan, is 150 million years old. Scientists testify that the foot of our distant ancestor differs from the foot of a modern person only in its incredible size. Next to this print, a clear footprint of a three-toed dinosaur paw has been preserved! All this testifies to only one thing - our ancestors could well have been giants. They existed in prehistoric times and hunted giant lizards, which did not look so huge next to these people.

The Man from Wilmington and the Giant from Cern

Yes, and images of giant people can be found in almost all countries. The most famous of them are the giants of Britain. This is a 70-meter "man from Wilmington" (Sussex County) and a 50-meter "giant from Cern" (Doroet County), the figures of the giants are located on the chalk hills. Ancient people removed the turf with grass there in such a way that the white base of the hills was exposed. The white contour of the huge human figures is perfectly visible against the green background when viewed from an airplane.

Inhabitants of Atlantis

So who were these giant people? According to anthropologists, powerful people, distinguished by gigantic growth, or, as they are also commonly called, Atlanteans, inhabited America, Europe, Asia Minor and the South Caucasus in prehistoric times.

The “Caucasian branch” of the Atlantean civilization, which flourished in the tenth millennium BC, coexisted in the north with the tribes of the Aryans, who settled in Eastern Europe, the Black Sea and the Volga region.

Six thousand years ago, the Aryans moved to Asia Minor and India. In the Black Sea region they encountered the Atlanteans. The civilized Atlanteans, who, judging by the myths, did not even eat meat, were pressed by the barbarians. From here, apparently, the legends about the fight against the titans went. So the history of the Atlanteans before the flood is centuries of struggle with the Aryans.

Awesome end

Scientists determine the date of the flood as 3247 BC. It was because of this monstrous catastrophe that Atlantis perished.

A terrible earthquake destroyed the Dardanelles Isthmus, and the waters of the Mediterranean flooded the coasts of the Marmara and Black Seas. Many cities of the Atlanteans were under water. This was the end of the most ancient civilization. However, the Atlanteans did not disappear without a trace. A huge number of myths among different peoples tells about the giants of antiquity. The Atlanteans also had a great influence on the culture of the Slavs. After all, it was the giant Triptolem who helped the Slavic Scythians switch to agriculture. Most likely, the hero Svyatogor was also an Atlantean.

Caucasian crypt

As already mentioned, the remains of an ancient civilization are found here and there. So, in 1912, in one of the gorges of the North Caucasus (in the current territory of the Stavropol Territory), a crypt with the remains of giant people was found. The huge stone crypt had a low ceiling, and its inner walls were lined with tightly fitted stones. Four human skeletons lay exactly in the center. The skeletons amazed scientists with their size. The people who found their last refuge in the "Caucasian crypt" were one and a half times taller than a modern man. All four skeletons were located with their heads to the west. Apparently, the giants were buried naked, since scientists did not find the remains of clothes in the crypt. Archaeologists were also struck by the peculiarity of the cranial bones of giants. Just above the temples on the skulls there were spherical outgrowths the size of a little finger, which scientists dubbed "horns".

Unfortunately, reports of this sensational discovery soon supplanted even more sensational news of the sinking of the Titanic. The author failed to clarify where the remains of the giants went ...

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At the end of the 20th century, an expedition of paleontologists was going to hard-to-reach places in Southern Mongolia. The purpose of the Anglo-French expedition is to explore the Gobi Desert, they are brought here by their interest in ancient secrets and legends. One of which tells that in the town of Uulakh, a gigantic devil lived in a stone gorge.

Traditions going from mouth to mouth over the centuries tell that the giant was so huge that the earth could hardly hold him. I must say that folklore in the form of fairy tales, in almost all countries, tells about the giant giants who lived in antiquity. Moreover, as the legends tell, as a rule, all the giants defended the country from enemy raids.

And now a group of paleontologists, led by Professor Higley, interested in the legend, goes to the desert in search of confirmation of this legend. And an amazing thing, perseverance in the search for a giant from ancient legends, helps researchers in the excavations they are conducting in rocks whose age is about 45 million years - the excavations end with a successful find.

The researchers found a fairly well-preserved skeleton resembling a humanoid creature, and amazingly, the growth of the remains is 15 - 17 meters. Apparently luck smiles at the prospectors, and these are the remains of the very creature about which the legends of antiquity spoke. The study of the giant's skull says that it was a creature with a developed brain and organs of speech.

Experts noted that in the proportions of the structure of the skeleton, there is one difference from a person, the hands of a giant are much larger in comparison with a person. But what else surprised the researchers, it turns out that the ancient myth about the “huge shaitan” was not invented in antiquity, and the giant actually existed, and the real giant was the basis of the legends.

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

In 1922, the National Geographic magazine published an incredible photo taken by the famous traveler Roy Chapman Andrews during his expedition to Mongolia. Under the picture it was indicated that it was taken in Ulaanbaatar. At the same time, Andrews reported that the growth of the Mongolian giant is 7 feet and 6 inches (2.32 meters). Compared to Europeans, the Mongols are somewhat lower, so the appearance of such a giant in Mongolia seems even more surprising.

Sharavzhamts is considered the tallest man in Mongolia. There is a photograph of a tall man with the youngest military leader B.Lkhagvasuren and the Hero of Mongolia D.Nantaisuren. Both military men next to Sharavzhamts seem to be just children and reach only to the waist. The height of the tallest man in Mongolia when he served in the army was 275 cm. After completing his service, he returned home and died in a car accident. Then he was only 25 years old. The bones of this man are now stored in the anatomical laboratory of the Medical University.

As for the discovery in Mongolia, it is perceived by the scientific world in different ways, and such thoughts are put forward that it is all a hoax. This opinion was expressed by fairly well-known paleontologists, while in some publications they referred to the opinion of Professor Parker, a very well-known person in the scientific world.

But to answer the question - why it was necessary to create such a complex hoax, it was not possible to answer. But for this it was necessary to make a unique skeleton, secretly carry out a burial, and what is all this for? However, many experts confirmed the authenticity of the find, excluding the version of a hoax.

The assumption of the British scientist Dr. Towns sounded very interesting, in which he said that the remains discovered by a group of researchers are unique. Since the remains belong to none other than an alien creature who once came to Earth. And its gigantic growth, and differences from humans, suggests that it lived and developed according to other, different from earthly conditions of evolution.

And life on other planets will probably be very different from the form of life we ​​are used to on Earth. Another assumption about the possibility of giants living on Earth was made by a scientist from Canada, Roger Wingley. Assuming that once the Earth, revolving around the Sun, and around its own axis, had a much higher speed, when the day was about 10 hours, and the year consisted of about four hundred days, and so it was for millions of years, then the living conditions were different.

And according to the scientist, it is quite possible that the conditions of those times, and evolution, allowed giants, dinosaurs to live - and perhaps the key to giant people lies in this.

But recently, the hypothesis of the extraterrestrial origin of the once living giants is gaining more and more firmness. It is possible that these are the remnants of warriors from those extraterrestrial civilizations that once clashed on Earth face to face, something that was reflected in the legends as the “battle of the Gods”.

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 is a photographic montage depicting an archaeological site of a giant humanoid skeleton that 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 southeastern Saudi Arabia by a Saudi Aramco search team searching for natural gas deposits. It was also claimed that tablets with inscriptions in Arabic were found in the burial, according to which the remains belonged to representatives of the ancient tribe of Aad, the descendants of the Old Testament prophet Noah mentioned in the Bible and the Koran. 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, a Canadian illustrator known by the pseudonym IronKite (Russian iron kite), told the editors of 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 why there are a lot 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 (photo 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 now literally circulating from the bottom of the yellow site to the next, 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 a real discovery. However, observations show that the high quality of the fake images, combined with the vaguely plausible explanations that accompany them, are apparently sufficient 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 directions, but the skeleton does not fit into the panorama of the image at all due to the difference in angles. The skeleton lacks 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. The lower right part of the school of fish is 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 normal 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.

Looking at the various options for fake giants, I became curious if I could replicate something similar using only the most basic skills in the Adobe Photoshop graphics program. 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. In order for these structures not to collapse, their cross-section must increase in proportion to the eightfold increase in the load, but if all dimensions are simply doubled, the cross-sectional area of ​​the bones will only increase by 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 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 optimal 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 grow to enormous sizes, the tongue becomes huge - and because of this, 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 stature 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.