Giants of the Past

By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than fiction Stories
The fascination about giants, their origins and how to explain them has existed for a long time. Some of them are described as being 30 or 40 feet high.

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Are the skeletal remains of giants proof of Nephilims? The following story was published in the Miami News in 1905:

The past was more prolific in the production of giants than the present. In 1830 one of these giants, who was exhibited at Rouen was ten feet high, and the giant Galabra, brought from Arabia to Rome in the time of Claudius Caesar, was the same height. Fannuni, who lived in the time of Eugene II, was eleven and one-half feet in height.

The Chevalier Scrog in his journey to the peak Tenerife found in one of the caverns of that mountain the head of a giant who had sixty teeth and who was not less than fifteen feet high. The giant Faragus, slain by Orlando, the nephew of Charlemagne, according to reports was twenty-eight feet high. In 1814 near St. Gernad was found the tomb of the giant Isolent, who was not less than thirty feet high. In 1500 near Rouen was found a skeleton whose head held a bushel of corn and which was nineteen feet in height. The giant Baert was twenty-two-feet high.

In 1623 near the castle in Dauphine a tomb was found thirty feet long, sixteen feet wide and eight feet high on which were cut in graystone the words "Kentolochus Rex". The skeleton was found entire and measured twenty-five and one-fourth feet high, ten feet across the shoulders and five feet from breastbone to the back.

​But France is not the only country where giant skeletons have been unearthed. Near Palermo, Sicily in 1516, was the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high and in 1559 another forty-four feet high. Near Magrino on the same island, in 1816 was found the skeleton of a giant of thirty feet whose head was the size of a hogshead and each tooth weighed five ounces.

The Mammoth Hunt

Were these really giants, or just very tall men in comparison to other men of same time period?

For example the Gravettian men or "Mammoth Hunters" that date back to the Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 10,000 years ago) were on average between 5'10" to 6'2" which was very tall for the time. In contrast ancient Maya who lived thousands of years later were 5'2" tall on average, and the women were about 4 feet tall.

Present day males who live in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the tallest in the world, which is believed to be a legacy of Gravettians, who hunted big game and had a surplus of high-quality proteins from the meat they ate, along with a low population density which created exceptionally tall males.

The Gravettians also kept dogs, and fed them reindeer meat. Research has found that the sudden appearance of dwellings built from mammoth bones was due to humans hunting alongside the earliest domesticated dogs.

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