GIANT HUMAN BEINGS EXISTED

The Titans, Cyclops, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, the Jolly Green Giant, or Jack’s Beanstock Giant: all these characters bring to mind fictional “mythological” imaginings, but what about in actual literal Earth history? Many people assume these so-called “tall-tales” have no basis in fact, but is that true? From the Bible to Greek mythology, Native American legends to conquistador diaries, nursery rhymes to newspapers, from Josephus and Homer to modern day historical accounts and archeological finds, evidence of giant human beings living on Earth is abundant.

The Execration Texts of Twelfth Dynasty Egypt (1900 B.C.) now on display at the Berlin Museum, mention by name the Anakim giants and Ashdod, the “city of the giants.” One of the most incredible accounts of ancient giants was by Hellenistic geographer Eumachus who told of two separate 36-foot human skeletons which were allegedly uncovered by Carthaginians somewhere around 300 B.C.!

The historian Josephus (37-95 A.D.), who lived in Hebron (home of Biblical giants), wrote that he had on multiple occasions dug up human bones of enormous size. He also wrote about the people of Judah facing the giants of Hebron, saying “There were till then left a race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men.” Josephus also wrote of Eleazar, a Jewish giant that stood over ten feet tall being one of the hostages the King of Persia sent to Rome to insure peace. Roman Emperor Aulus Vitellius also mentioned this writing that, “Darius, son of Artabanes, was sent as a hostage to Rome, he took with him, with diverse presents, a man 7 cubits high, a Jew named Eleazar, who was called a giant by reason of his greatness.”