Recently, archaeologists discovered the remains of ancient people of gigantic stature in the Kuban. They were buried about 4 thousand years ago... We talk about the phenomenon of giant people who lived in the Caucasus and other anomalous phenomena with Vadim Chernobrov, coordinator of the scientific research public association "Cosmopoisk". “Tomb of the Giants” - What other anomalous phenomena did this year mark? - Firstly, our expedition visited a man who was struck by ball lightning 5 times. He lives in Krasnodar region, in Ust-Labinsk. We went to see him immediately after the fifth lightning “attack”. They took the T-shirt he was wearing at the time of the impact. It is burned through, the edges of the hole are melted,
and we hope that fragments of the substance that makes up ball lightning remain there. We are going to study it in the laboratory.
Secondly,
we were in Ingushetia, where after a mountain collapse a cave opened up, which
Locals call it the cave of the genies. I must say 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 suspended by their legs, etc. Immediately
after the rock collapsed, 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 no longer found the genies in the cave (laughs).
- You several years ago
discovered a “grave of giants” in the Caucasus. Were you able to explore it? How
since 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 several years ago
back, is an artificial mound. When looking at
There is no doubt in his mind that this is the grave of a gigantic creature.
The dimensions of the stepped pyramidal mound are comparable to those of Egypt
pyramids, the platform alone at the top is 80 meters long.
It is oriented strictly along the east-west line, which is typical for
many ancient burials. Previously, we probed the hill with a geolocator.
The device showed that there were “foreign” inclusions in the depths. Excavations
have not yet been held, but this year they were not needed: we were invited
to a similar place where a mudflow opened up a stone-lined underground
cavity. This is in Kabardino-Balkaria, near the Georgian border. We
climbed down into the cavity using 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 Caucasian legends about giant ancestors are not
are baseless.
Russian scientists have found the remains of giant people in the Caucasus
The Caucasus has something to be famous for, except
their strict traditions. For the first time in world history, Russian scientists
science managed to discover what was only previously assumed in known
archaeological laboratories. We are talking about giant people.
Giant people
still existed, and direct evidence of this is the skeletons,
found in the Meshoko cave. A huge burial was discovered by local
population, which was immediately reported to the authorities. Archaeologists arrived
to the place of discovery, they confirmed that the bones indeed belonged to
Homo sapiens. Previously, the entrance to the cave was blocked by rocks, but
a recent mountain collapse revealed to humanity a large archaeological
riddle.
On March 29, experts cleared up the remains of the giants a little and already said
their exact height. Its indicators range from 3.5 to 4 meters. But this is still
Not all! The corresponding growth also suggested the presence of a huge cranial
boxes. This means that giant people could have been much smarter
Einstein and more capable than Leonardo da Vinci.
When the jaws of giant people were examined, it was discovered
A unique phenomenon for humanity - two rows of upper and lower teeth.
Of course, this is physiologically impossible in the mouth of a modern person,
Therefore, giant people had a sloping chin, which made it possible to fit
all the 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 provide more detailed comments. Skeletons
They are now clearing the ground and heading to Krasnodarsky’s laboratory
the edges. As WellNews.ru correspondents were told, the find
interested US scientists. Perhaps some of the skeletons will be transported
for research in the American state.
Original taken from terrao “Tomb of giants” discovered in the Caucasus
Before the flood people were giants
3.02.2012 02:40
Historical chronicles of the 19th century often report the discovery of skeletons of abnormally tall people in different parts of the globe.
In 1821, in the US state of Tennessee, the ruins of an ancient stone wall were found, and under it were two human skeletons 215 centimeters tall. In Wisconsin, during the construction of a granary in 1879, huge vertebrae and skull bones of “incredible thickness and size” were found, according to a newspaper article.
In 1883, several burial mounds were discovered in Utah containing the burials of very tall people - 195 centimeters, which is at least 30 centimeters higher than the average height of Aboriginal Indians. The latter did not make these burials and could not provide any information about them. In 1885, in Gasterville (Pennsylvania), a stone crypt was discovered in a large burial mound, in which there was a skeleton 215 centimeters high. Primitive images of people, birds and animals were carved on the walls of the crypt.
In 1890, in Egypt, archaeologists found a stone sarcophagus with a clay coffin inside, which contained the mummies of a two-meter red-haired woman and a baby. The facial features and build of the mummies were sharply different from the ancient Egyptians. Similar mummies of a man and a woman with red hair were discovered in 1912 in Lovelock (Nevada) in a cave carved into the rock. The height of the mummified woman during life was two meters, and the man - about three meters.
Australian finds
In 1930, near Basarst in Australia, prospectors mining jasper often found fossilized imprints of huge human feet. Anthropologists called the race of giant people, whose remains were found in Australia, megantropus. The height of these people ranged from 210 to 365 centimeters. Megantropus are similar to Gigantopithecus, the remains of which were discovered in China. Judging by the found fragments of jaws and many teeth, the height of the Chinese giants was 3 to 3.5 meters, and their weight was 400 kilograms. Near Basarst, in river sediments, there were stone artifacts of enormous weight and size - clubs , plows, chisels, knives and axes. Modern Homo sapiens would hardly be able to work with tools weighing from 4 to 9 kilograms.
An anthropological expedition that specifically explored this area in 1985 for the presence of remains of Meganthropus, carried out excavations at a depth of up to three meters from the surface of the earth. Australian researchers found, among other things, a fossilized molar tooth 67 millimeters high and 42 millimeters wide. The owner of the tooth had to be at least 7.5 meters tall and weigh 370 kilograms! Hydrocarbon analysis determined the age of the finds to be nine million years.
In 1971, in Queensland, farmer Stephen Walker, while plowing his field, came across a large fragment of a jaw with teeth five centimeters high. In 1979 in Megalong Valley in Blue Mountains local residents found a huge stone sticking out above the surface of the stream, on which could be seen the imprint of part of a huge foot with five toes. The transverse size of the fingers was 17 centimeters. If the print had been preserved in its entirety, it would have been 60 centimeters long. It follows that the print was left by a man six meters tall. Three huge footprints, 60 centimeters long and 17 centimeters wide, were found near Malgoa. The giant's stride length was measured at 130 centimeters. The footprints were preserved in fossilized lava for millions of years, even before Homo sapiens appeared on the Australian continent (if the theory of evolution is correct). Huge footprints are also found in the limestone bed of the Upper Macleay River. The fingerprints of these footprints are 10 centimeters long and the width of the foot is 25 centimeters. Obviously, the Aborigines of Australia were not the first inhabitants of the continent. Interestingly, their folklore contains legends about giant people who once lived in these territories.
Other evidence of giants
In one of the old books entitled History and Antiquity, now kept in the library of Oxford University, there is an account of the discovery of a gigantic skeleton made in the Middle Ages in Cumberland. “The giant is buried four yards deep in the ground and is in full military garb. His sword and battle ax rest next to him. The skeleton is 4.5 yards (4 meters) long, and the "big man's" teeth measure 6.5 inches (17 centimeters)."
In 1877, near Ewreka, Nevada, prospectors were panning for gold in a deserted hilly area. One of the workers accidentally noticed something sticking out over the cliff ledge. People climbed the rock and were surprised to find human bones of the foot and lower leg along with the kneecap. The bone was immured in the rock, and the miners used picks to free it from the rock. Assessing the unusualness of the find, the workers brought it to Evreka. The stone in which the rest of the leg was embedded was quartzite, and the bones themselves turned black, which indicated their considerable age. The leg was broken above the knee and consisted of the knee joint and completely preserved bones of the lower leg and foot. Several doctors examined the bones and concluded that the leg undoubtedly belonged to a person. But the most intriguing aspect of the find was the size of the leg - 97 centimeters from knee to foot. The owner of this limb during his lifetime had a height of 3 meters 60 centimeters.
Even more mysterious was the age of the quartzite in which the fossil was found - 185 million years, the era of dinosaurs. Local newspapers vied with each other to report the sensation. One of the museums sent researchers to the site in hopes of finding the remaining parts of the skeleton. But, unfortunately, nothing more was discovered.
In 1936, German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Kohl found the skeletons of giant people on the shores of Lake Elizi in Central Africa. The 12 men buried in the mass grave had heights from 350 to 375 centimeters during their lifetime. It is curious that their skulls had sloping chins and two rows of upper and lower teeth.
There is evidence that during the Second World War in Poland, during the burial of those executed, a fossilized skull 55 centimeters high was found, that is, almost three times larger than that of a modern adult. The giant to whom the skull belonged had very proportional features and a height of at least 3.5 meters
Giant Skulls
Ivan T. Sanderson, a famous zoologist and frequent guest on the popular American show “Tonight” in the 60s, once shared with the public an interesting story about a letter he received from a certain Alan McShir. The author of the letter in 1950 worked as a bulldozer operator on the construction of a road in Alaska. He reported that workers discovered two huge fossilized skulls, vertebrae and leg bones in one of the burial mounds. The height of the skulls reached 58 cm and the width 30 centimeters. The ancient giants had a double row of teeth and disproportionately flat heads. Each skull had a neat round hole in the upper part. It should be noted that the custom of deforming the skulls of infants in order to force their heads to acquire an elongated shape as they grew, existed among some Indian tribes of North America. The vertebrae, as well as the skulls, were three times larger in size than those of modern humans. The length of the shin bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters.
In South Africa, in diamond mining in 1950, a fragment of a huge skull 45 centimeters high was discovered. Above the brow ridges were two strange protrusions that resembled small horns. Anthropologists who came into possession of the find determined the age of the skull - about nine million years.
There is reliable evidence of the discovery of huge skulls in Southeast Asia and the islands of Oceania.
At the beginning of the 16th century, one discovery made the entire French kingdom talk about itself: a complete skeleton of a man of gigantic stature who lived in a very specific era was found. This was the king of the Cimbri, one of the two tribes that attacked Gaul and was defeated by the Roman general Marius. Nicolas Habicot published in 1613 “A Dissertation on the Frame of the Giant Teutobochus, King of the Cimbri.” This skeleton was indeed impressive because it belonged to a man 25 feet tall. The discovery, which was considered genuine, was talked about for a long time, and the supposed skeleton of “Teutobochus” occupied its rightful place in the Natural History Museum for several generations. This was believed even 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 composed of real fossil bones, but these were not human bones at all: these were the bones of ... a mastodon, that is, a type of prehistoric giant elephant that disappeared even before the appearance of mammoths. This means that the clever “handicraftsman” simply figured out how to give the bones a “standing” position, so that the height and posture of the skeleton resembled that 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, of course, impressive, but there is no reason to claim that their creators were of gigantic stature. In the end, Cathedral in Strasbourg - also a huge building, but nevertheless, it was built by people of quite normal sizes, they just owned perfect technology.
And yet there are some very intriguing archaeological discoveries. Archaeologist Burkhalter, during excavations in Moravia, discovered a stone tool whose dimensions exceeded three by four meters and weighed three or four pounds! This, quite obviously, was a used tool, and not at all a symbolic item 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 ancient temple huge statues. 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 a paradise lost from the very beginning, an initial high initiation followed by a fall.”
In the history of any nation there are always more questions than answers. So the question of the existence of giants never on Earth is attributed to the realm of fantasy and mythology. However, we can also recall the legends about dragons and giant serpents, which were also classified as fantasy, myths, but only relatively recently it was confirmed that they existed and were dinosaurs that inhabited our planet long before humanity.
The image of dragons is inherent in almost every nation and appears in the mythology of all nationalities. The same thing applies to the image of giants and giants. Maybe this is also a legend for now, until we find one hundred percent evidence of their existence?
Stories about the existence of giant people are not only in the Bible, where the myth of David and Goliath is mentioned, and myths that in the antediluvian time the earth was inhabited by huge people. Such myths are found all over the world: from South America to Australia. Every nation has, to one degree or another, information about giants. And only relatively recently, products and objects began to be discovered all over the world that were thousands of years old and that ordinary people could not use.
Nakhodki
So in South America, near the Okavango River, during excavations of an ancient settlement, huge poleaxes and axes were discovered. Archaeologists took one of them to America, where they exhibited it at the US Historical Society. The exhibit is more than a meter long, more than half a meter wide, and its weight is 150 kg. More than 49 million years old.
In South Africa in 1912, the footprint of a huge man was discovered. It was 1.3 meters long and even the dirt that could have remained between the toes of that person was visible on the print of the left foot. The imprint, but of the right foot, was discovered by the Arab navigator Ibn Battuta in the 14th century on the island of Ceylon. According to the rumors that prevailed at that time, this island was the cradle of humanity and it was there that Adam was born.
There is a mountain on the island that has been referred to as “Adam’s Peak” for quite some time. It was this place that the traveler wanted to visit to find the remains of the forefather of mankind. He didn't find any remains, but he did find the footprint of a giant man. 1.5 meters long and 80 cm wide. As scientists later found out, the height of such a person could be more than 10 meters. Corresponds to the description of the antediluvian people inhabiting the earth in the Bible.
In the 1930s in Basarsta, Australia, jasper miners often discovered huge imprints of human feet. The size of their owners should have been 210-365 cm. Anthropologists called the race of these people Meganthropus. This race is similar to the Gigantopithecus race found in China. Judging by the remains of teeth and legs, discovered in various provinces, the Asian giants were between 3 and 3.5 meters tall and weighed about 400 kg.
An anthropological examination, which was carried out in 1985 at the site where footprints were discovered in 1930, ended in a sensation. At a depth of more than 3 meters, a human tooth was discovered, 67 mm high and 42 mm wide. The owner had to be at least 7.5 meters tall and weigh at least 370kg. Hydrocarbon analysis showed the age of the find to be 9 million years.
In 1979, local farmers discovered a stone in the Blue Mountains with a small human footprint on it. Having completely restored the imprint, it turned out that the footprint was more than 10 million years old, and it belonged to a 6-meter giant. And at the beginning of the 20th century, in the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia, fossilized bones of a humanoid creature were discovered, whose age is more than 45 million years. Its main feature was arms 15 meters long and legs 7 meters long. In 1936, on the shores of Lake Elizi, in Central Africa, during archaeological work it was discovered mass grave, in which they found the skeletons of people whose height during life was approximately 3.5 meters.
In Alaska in 1950, while building a road, a local bulldozer discovered two fossilized skulls, vertebrae and foot bones. The height of the skulls reached 58 cm and the width 30 centimeters. The ancient giants had a double row of teeth and disproportionately flat heads. The vertebrae, like the skulls, were three times larger than those of modern humans. The length of the shin bones ranged from 150 to 180 centimeters. And during the Second World War, when the Germans were digging a huge grave for executed prisoners, a skull 55 cm high was discovered, which is three times the size of the skull modern people. The giant to whom the skull belonged had proportionate facial features and a height of more than 3.5 meters.
Remains of giants are found all over the world. Secrets of giants and the ancient history of the earth Is it fiction, or is there really truth in it?
Giants in ancient Karelia
A living folk tradition throughout Finland and some corners of Karelia attributes the ownership, in some places, of the grave stone piles and mounds still preserved, to the non-Finnish people who inhabited ancient times all of Finland, the northern part of Scandinavia and even Karelia in the current territories of the Kem and Olonets provinces. The Finnish name for this ancient people is Hiisi. A people who, according to ancient Finnish legends, were famous for their height.
An excerpt from one saga about the discovery of Norway begins like this: “Forniot was called a king: he ruled over Jotland, as Finland was then called, and Kvenlandt. This king was Nora’s great-grandfather, but we don’t know any other details about him.” These lines were written about times when neither Norway nor Finland were inhabited by historical peoples. All the more interesting for us is the name Forniot itself, which means “giant of former times.”
As the northern territories were populated, the giants moved further and further north. Thus, the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus (1140-1206) mentions that “the giants have now retired to those deserts that lie on the other side of Gandvik, north of Norway.” By the way, many nationalities (Finns, Swedes, Sami, Karelians) have preserved the memory of the resettlement of “giant people” in ancient times.
The Arab historian Ibn Fadlan, at the beginning of the 10th century, having learned that “there is some kind of extraordinary giant in the Volga Bulgar,” made a request to the Bulgar king himself. The king replied that there really was such a giant in his country, but he died; and he was not one of his people and “not a real person.” “And he was twelve cubits tall (about six meters), his head was the size of a large cauldron, a huge nose, eyes and fingers were enormous. He was from the peoples of the world. I saw his bones - they are of immense size,” notes Ibn Fadlan.
The Danes have a hero, Olaf, who lived in the area where the Hiisi lived. There are legends in which he could lift a boat with one hand, helped drag stones that even a group of people could not lift, and lived in a taiga in which no ordinary person would survive.
The book of the outstanding Russian ethnographer and archaeologist Theodor Schwindt “Folk legends of the northwestern Ladoga region, collected in the summer of 1879,” which has long become a bibliographic rarity, provides unique information about the “giants ancient land Korelskaya".
“Legends about the Metelilainen,” T. Schwindt further points out, “have been preserved almost everywhere, but there are especially many of them in the Kurkijoki volost (now the village of Kurkijoki, Lakhdenpokhsky district). Probably because in some places there is a lot of real evidence of the activity of giant people: these are fields cleared of forest, and from time to time huge human bones found in the ground, and plows thrown by snowstorms, as well as huge ramparts in the mountains and islands.” .
So are the ancient giants a myth or reality? The answer to this question is impossible at this stage. The only thing that remains is to wait for new research on this topic, which will be able to reveal light on the past of our species.
People are giants. Do you think this is a myth or reality? In the article we will analyze the findings and compare the facts, which will help solve this mystery or get very close to the result.
The existence of giants is evidenced by finds of bones of unusual sizes around the world, as well as myths and legends living mainly among American Indians. Scientists, however, have never paid enough attention to collecting and analyzing this evidence. Probably because they considered the existence of giants impossible.
The book of Genesis (chapter 6, verse 4) reads:“At that time there were giants on the earth, especially since the time when the sons of God began to come in to the daughters of men, and they began to bear children to them. These are strong people who have been famous since ancient times.”
Giant people in history
Goliath
The most famous of the giants described in the Bible is the warrior Goliath of Gath. The Book of Samuel says that Goliath was defeated by the sheep shepherd David, who later became king of Israel. Goliath, according to the biblical description, had a height of more than six cubits, that is, three meters.
His military equipment weighed about 420 kg, and the weight of the metal spear reached 50 kg. There are many stories among the people about giants who were feared by rulers and leaders. Greek mythology tells the story of Enceladus, a giant who fought Zeus and was struck by lightning and covered by Mount Etna.
In the fourteenth century, the skeleton of the supposed Polyphemus, the one-eyed king of the Cyclops, was discovered in Trapani (Sicily), 9 meters long.
The Delaware Indians say that in the old days east of the Mississippi there lived giant men called Alligewi who would not allow them to pass through their lands. declared war on them and eventually forced them to leave the area.
The Sioux Indians had a similar legend. In Minnesota, where they lived, a race of giants appeared, which, according to legend, they destroyed. The bones of giants are probably still in this land.
Trace of the Giant
On Mount Sri Pada in Sri Lanka there is a deep imprint of a man's foot of gigantic proportions: it is 168 cm long and 75 cm wide! Legend says that this is the trace of our ancestor - Adam.
The famous Chinese navigator Zheng He spoke about this find in the 16th century:
“There is a mountain on the island. It is so high that its peak reaches the clouds and the only imprint of a man’s foot can be seen on it. The recess in the rock reaches up to two chi, and the length of the foot is more than 8 chi. They say here that this trace was left by Saint A-Tang, the forefather of mankind.”
Giants from different countries
In 1577, huge human bones were found in Lucerne. The authorities quickly convened scientists who, working under the guidance of the famous anatomist Dr. Felix Plater from Basel, determined that these were the remains of a man 5.8 meters tall!
36 years later, France discovered its own giant. His remains were found in a grotto near Chaumont Castle. This man was 7.6 meters tall! The Gothic inscription "Tentobochtus Rex" was found in the cave, as well as coins and medals, which lead to believe that the skeleton of the Cimbri king was discovered.
Europeans who began to study South America also talked about huge people. The southern part of Argentina and Chile was named Patagonia by Magellan from the Spanish "pata" - hoof, because tracks resembling large hooves were found there.
In 1520, Magellan's expedition encountered a giant in Port San Julian, whose appearance was recorded in the journal: “This man was so tall that we only reached him to the waist, and his voice sounded like the roar of a bull.” Magellan's men probably even managed to capture two giants, who, chained on the deck, did not survive the journey. But because their bodies stank horribly, they were thrown overboard.
British explorer Francis Drake claimed that in 1578 he South America got into a fight with giants whose height was 2.8 meters. Drake lost two people in this battle.
More and more researchers encountered their giants and the number of documents on the topic grew.
In 1592, Anthony Quinett summarized that the height of known giants is, on average, 3-3.5 meters.
Giant Man - Myth or reality?
When, however, Charles Darwin arrived in Patagonia in the 19th century, found no trace of the giants. Earlier information was discarded as it was considered to be greatly exaggerated. But stories of giants continued to come from other regions.
The Incas claimed, What giant people descend from the clouds at regular intervals to live with their women.
It is often difficult to tell the difference between a very tall person and a giant. For a pygmy, a person with a height of 180 cm is probably a giant. However, anyone over two meters tall should be classified as a giant.
That's exactly what he was Irishman Patrick Cotter. He was born in 1760 and died in 1806. He was famous for his height and made his living performing in circuses and fairs. His height was 2 meters 56 centimeters.
At the same time, he lived in the USA Paul Bunyan - Lumberjack, about which there are many legends. According to them, he kept elk as pets, and when he was once attacked by a buffalo, he easily broke its neck. Contemporaries claimed that Bunyan was 2.8 meters tall.
There is also a very interesting document in the English archives, namely, "The History and Antiquities of Allerdale." This work is a collection of folk songs, legends and stories about the Cumberland and tells, in particular, about the discovery of huge remains in the Middle Ages:
“The giant was buried at a depth of 4 meters in what is now farmland, and the grave was marked with a vertical stone. The skeleton was 4.5 meters long and was fully armed. The sword and ax of the dead man lay near him. The sword was more than 2 meters long and 45 centimeters wide.”
In Northern Ireland there are 40,000 closely spaced and driven into the ground conical pillars with convex and concave ends, which are believed to be natural formations. Old legends say, however, that these are the remains of a colossal bridge that connected Ireland and Scotland.
In the spring of 1969, excavations were carried out in Italy and 50 brick-lined coffins were discovered nine kilometers south of Rome. There were no names or other inscriptions on them. All of them contained skeletons of men with a height of 200 to 230 cm. Very tall, especially for Italy.
Archaeologist Dr Luigi Cabalucci said the people died between the ages of 25 and 40. Their teeth were in surprisingly good condition. Unfortunately, the date of the burial and the circumstances under which it occurred were not established.
Where do giants come from?
So, the number of finds increased, and in different countries. But the most intriguing question is “where do they come from? giant people"remains unanswered.
French writer Denis Saurat has formulated a fascinating version. Thinking about what might happen if some other celestial body began to approach Earth, he concluded that the effect of such an event would be a sharp increase in the gravity of our planet.
The tides would be higher, meaning land would be flooded. Another, less well-known consequence of this state of affairs would be gigantism in plants, animals and humans. The latter would reach a height of 5 meters. According to this theory, the size of living organisms increases with increasing radiation, in this case cosmic radiation.
“Increased radiation, including cosmic radiation, probably has two effects: it causes mutations and damages or transforms tissue. Some illustration of the theory and the effect of radiation on growth may be the events of 1902 in Martinique, where Mount Pelée erupted, killing 20,000 people in St. Pierre.
Immediately before the eruption began, a purple cloud consisting of dense gas and water vapor formed over the crater of the volcano. It grew to an unprecedented size and spread throughout the island, whose inhabitants were not yet aware of the threat.
Suddenly, a pillar of fire 1,300 feet high shot out from the volcano. The fire also engulfed the cloud, which burned at temperatures above 1000 degrees. All the inhabitants of St. Pierre died, with the exception of one, who was sitting in a prison cell protected by thick walls.
The destroyed city was never rebuilt, but biological life on the island was reborn faster than expected. The plants and plants returned, but they were all much larger now. Dogs, cats, turtles, lizards and insects were larger than ever before, and each successive generation was taller than the previous one."
French authorities set up a research station at the foot of the mountain and soon discovered that mutations in animals and plants were the result of radiation from minerals released during the volcanic eruption.
This radiation also affected people: the head of the research center, Dr. Jules Graviou, grew by 12.5 cm, and his assistant, Dr. Powen, by 10 cm. It was discovered that the irradiated plants grew three times faster and reached a development level in six months. which would normally take two years.
The lizard, called the copa, which previously reached 20 cm in length, turned into a small dragon 50 cm long, and its bite, previously harmless, became more dangerous than the venom of a cobra.
The strange phenomenon of anomalous enlargement disappeared when these plants and animals were transported from Martinique. On the island itself, the apogee of radiation was reached within 6 months after the explosion, and then its intensity slowly began to return to normal levels.
Is it possible that something similar (maybe on an even larger scale) happened once in the past? Increased doses of radiation could contribute to the formation of abnormally large organisms. This theory finds some support from the fact that huge animals existed on Earth long after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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In the modern world there are many people with enormous growth who are also considered giants.
Giants were first mentioned in the Bible.
It happened in the Old Testament - there were giants on earth, and in their eyes the common people were like locusts to us. The Bible calls giants strong, glorious people of old, and compares them to the sons of God.
The legendary Philistine giant Goliath is known as a mythical hero who was three meters tall and had enormous physical strength. According to ancient legends, he fought his enemies by throwing huge boulders at them, which reached the size of a head of cabbage. However, according to legend, despite his superhuman strength, Goliath was defeated by the brave shepherd David, who was quite standard in size and not distinguished by gigantic physical strength.
The victory of brave David over the mighty giant today is an example for many young men whose physical nature is far from heroic standards. Subsequently, David, the winner of Goliath, became king and ruled in the Kingdom of Israel from 1005 BC. to 965 BC
Giant people were also mentioned in ancient Greek sources. One of these were the Titans - the children of the Earth goddess Gaia, who were monstrous giants. It was mentioned that they were born from drops of the blood of Uranus, the ancient Greek God of Heaven. According to legend, huge titans fought against the Olympian gods, but were overthrown into Tartarus, deep within the earth, after Hercules defeated them.
Another representative of the giants was the patron god of Babylon. According to ancient legend, he had immeasurable strength and was so tall that he overshadowed all other gods. The Babylonian creation epic names him "marduk" ("son of pure sky") as the supreme deity of Babylonia.
Giants in the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages are also characterized by the presence of giants of their time. According to the legends of that time, the Slavic hero Svyatogor, being a comrade in arms of Mikula Selyaninovich and Ilya Muromets, had superhuman strength and was very tall. According to ancient Slavic writings, Svyatogor was taller than trees and so heavy that the Earth could not bear his weight and collapsed under his feet.
One Russian writer, studying and creating writing for the peoples of the North, outlined the legend of this people in his work “Chukchi”. According to this legend, a tribe of incredibly tall people lived in the snow-covered tundra. This was about two thousand years ago, however, and in our modern times, northern hunters on their way meet incredibly tall, muscular men.
The Hutsul people once sang a song about giants. Residents of Ukrainian villages and villages still know and sing it in their circles. In this song they described ancient people of enormous stature living in the mountain valley of the Carpathians. They were called giants, walking a mile and reaching the sky. Later, this Hutsul folk song was used by director Sergei Parajanov in his outstanding creation “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.”
Giants of Ancient Rome
Posio and Scundila
The famous “Gardens of Salustius” in Rome, which belonged to a historian who lived in the 1st century BC, were guarded by the giants Posio and Scundila. They were widely known throughout the city due to their enormous height, reaching three meters. In addition, the giants had a formidable character, which scared petty thieves and hooligans away from the luxurious Salustiya estate.
Another giant, whose height almost reached 3.5 meters, was one of the hostages sent to Rome by the Persian king. According to the writings of Josephus, an ancient Jewish historian, the giant did not possess any supernatural power, but was known for his gluttony, and in “eating competitions” he was always ahead of his rivals.
Giants in the eyes of travelers
Great travelers also managed to see giants. The Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan, a famous navigator, wintered in Argentina in 1520. On his expedition in modern Patagonia, he met a giant whose height exceeded two meters, and Magellan himself was waist-deep. Later, two more natives were captured by Magellan's people, who were intended to be delivered as a gift to King Charles I. But the natives died on the way across the ocean, unable to withstand the difficult transition, and were thrown overboard. According to some sources, Patagonia takes its name from the word patagón, which Magellan used to call the giants he met.
Another English navigator, Francis Drake, in 1578, while traveling around the world, met people more than 2.8 meters tall on the shores of Patagonia, which he wrote down in his logbook.
Giants of the past century
Robert Pershing Wadlow
Giants also met in the last century. Among us lived a number of people with enormous stature. One of these people, Robert Pershing Wadlow, is called “the tallest man in history.” Robert Wadlow lived from 1918 to 1940 in Alton, Illinois. Throughout his short life he continued to grow, and at the time of Robert Wadlow’s death his height was 2 m 72 centimeters, his foot was 49 cm, and he weighed 199 kg.
But this is not an isolated case when the growth of a modern person reached non-standard sizes. In total, in the history of medicine of the last century, 17 giant people were recorded, taller than 2.44 m. John William Rogan, whose height was 2 m 64 cm, was the second in the number of tall people in history after Robert Pershing Wadlow. John F. Carroll was 2 m 63 cm tall, another giant, Finn Välno Myllyrinne, was 2 m 51 cm tall, and Bernard Coyen was 2 m 48 cm tall. Another person with a non-standard height of 2 m 49 cm was Don Kohler.
Giant woman
Among the representatives of female giants, the tallest woman in the world was recognized and still remains a Chinese woman from Hunan province - Zeng Jinlian, who lived in 1964-1982. Her height began to develop actively at the age of 4 months and by the age of four it reached 156 cm, and by the time of her death at the age of 18 her height was 2 m 48 cm.
Giants Hugo
The Hugo twin brothers were known to residents of the late 19th century. Baptiste and Antoine Hugo, twin brothers called "giants of the Alps" performed in Europe and America.
The eldest of the brothers, Baptist Hugo, was photographed with the inhabitants of North Africa, and called himself “the tallest man on all the Earth.” The height of Antoine, the youngest of the brothers, was 225 cm.
The Russian hero Fyodor Makhnov, a popular giant of the last century, became famous due to his impressive height of 2 m 68 cm. As St. Petersburg newspapers described him in 1906, he was “a Russian giant of a height never before seen in any part of the globe.” .
Fyodor Makhnov was born in the northeast of Belarus, near the village of Kostyuki in 1878. From the age of fourteen, Fedor traveled around the world with his performances and aroused surprised glances from the public and universal admiration.
At the age of sixteen, according to the contract, Makhnov’s height was “3 arshins 9 inches,” which in today’s terms is 253 centimeters. According to the Warsaw anthropologist Lushan, the height of Fyodor Makhnov continued to increase and reached a maximum of 285 cm. As Lushan noted in 1903 in the journal “Nature and People”, in order to at least slightly introduce this extraordinary person in society, the boots of the giant Fyodor to a person of standard height was chest-deep, and a boy of about 12 could fit in his full-length boot.
Makhnov was distinguished not only by his enormous height, but also by his superhuman physical strength. At his performances, he raised the orchestra platform, bent horseshoes and twisted spirals from iron rods. Being so famous, Fedor, of course, aroused interest among the common people in his personal life. Newspapers of that time published information that Fyodor Makhnov had a wife and five children. However, the father’s enormous height did not affect his offspring in any way, and all of Fedor’s children were of normal height.
Over time, Fyodor Makhnov got tired of being fun for the public, he quit his performances and moved to live in his native land, where he built a new farm with the proceeds from his performances. According to official data, Fyodor Makhnov died at the age of 34 from pneumonia. However, some suggested that the “Russian Gulliver” was poisoned by competitors - circus strongmen and giants.
Makhnov’s grave is still preserved in the cemetery of the village of Kostyuki. It says “The Tallest Man in the World.” He was 3 arshins 9 inches tall.” However, Fedor’s grave is a place without a burial, and the remains of the giant are no longer there. The skeleton of the Russian hero was exhumed in 1939 and was sent for study to the Medical Institute in Minsk. However, the skeleton remained lost after the destruction of the war, and has not been found to this day.
Sultan Kösen
According to Guinness World Records, the man currently living and the tallest is Turkish farmer Sultan Kösen. This man was born in December 1982 and now lives in Turkey. He is currently 2.51 m tall
Leonid Stadnik
Another contemporary giant who was voluntarily removed from the Guinness Book of Records is Leonid Stadnik. It no longer appears in the book of records because... refused the next control weighing. Currently, Leonid lives in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, in the village of Podolyantsy. Today, Leonid’s height is 2 m 53 cm, and he weighs 200 kg, and this, apparently, is not the limit, because he continues to grow.
Alexander Sizonenko
Alexander Sizonenko (1959 - 2012), another tall man of our time. He was born in the Kherson region of Ukraine, the village of Zaporozhye. Alexander was a famous basketball player who was the tallest in the history of the sport. Sizonenko was brought up in a sports boarding school in St. Petersburg, and played for the Leningrad team “Spartak” and the Kuibyshev “Stroitel”. The height of the tallest basketball player was 243 cm. Unfortunately, in January 2012 in the city of St. Petersburg, Alexander died.
Many legends of the world tell about giants, giants, titans in all ancient written sources. We are often informed about the discovery of skeletons of people of abnormal height in different parts of the globe. So maybe our ancestors were giants?
Stone Age burials have been discovered in the Sahara Desert. The age of the remains is approximately 5000 years. In 2005-2006, about 200 burials were found. All of them were tall, more than two meters
Giant fossils were found in Turkey. The human leg bone is 120 cm long. Based on this, the person’s height should have been 5 meters.
They found people whose height was 3-3.5 meters and weight 300 kg.
Anthropologists found a fossilized tooth 67 mm high and 42 mm wide. According to estimates, the owner of the tooth should have been 7.5 meters tall and weighed 370 kg. Analyzes determined the age of the find - 9 million years
A jaw was discovered in one of the caves. But despite the resemblance to a human one, the size of the found bone seems abnormally large
It is assumed that all the main monuments of antiquity ( Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, Sphinx) were built by these giants. According to scientists, giants are the race that preceded us (not to be confused with the current concept that characterizes belonging to a particular nationality). They mastered psychic energy and “life force” that were unusual for us.
The Aryan race appeared in the depths of the Atlantic civilization about 1 million years ago. All modern earthlings are called Aryans. The early Aryans were 3-4 meters tall, then their height decreased
Anthropologists have even found drawings on Incan stones. They were discovered in Peru. And these drawings show that people lived with dinosaurs. By comparing these drawings, scientists discovered amazing fact: Humans and dinosaurs have roughly similar proportions! Perhaps the era of dinosaurs was inhabited by giant people. And a man is in the mouth of a dinosaur, and a dinosaur with a cut off head... a dinosaur
