Do you believe giants ever existed on this earth?

[Satyros]

Are there enouph evidence to suggest there ever were giants walking this earth?

[Artemisia]

Well, according to some recent reports about giant mammoth bones found in Crete and Asia Minor, some scholars have concluded that ancient people came across such bones and made fenciful myths about them. I don't believe in giant people but I do believe that there must have been some odd, very tall humans in ancient societies. For example, Rameses II was said to be over 6' tall and for ancient Egyptians, he was almost a giant of their race. Likewise, the Minoans were short people and anyone who was abnormaly tall for their race was probably considered an anomaly or a giant.

[Satyros]

Alternative sources claim that something like a conspiracy occured, with the aim to hide giant human skulls excavated in different parts of the world from common knowledge and publicity. Would ancient people create so many myths and stories about giants and half human beings like ceuntaurs if there was not a paradigm in their real time natural suroundings to give them a motive to do that?

[Satyros]

I m talking about real giants

[sublime]

interesting question, there are a great many traditions that state the belief that giants once roamed the earth and furthermore that people lived alot longer than they do today

i dont know how much truth they hold

[Melnorme]

Germanic Giants!

www.geocities.com/reginheim/giants.html

[Praetor]

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Efthimis Rentzias ,211 cm

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Andreas Glyniadakis,216 cm


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Giorgos Trontzos,217 cm first left.

Ok I 'm kidding here. What I want to say is that since we have no fossil or generally evidence of a Giant ape I find it highly unlikely that giant men ever existed. Of course there is evidence og gigantic animals now extinct (eg Canis Dirus,a huge cannine) or still surviving (eg Elks) but humans...well I find this hardly possible.

[Satyros]

Heracles fighting with the giant Antaios

[Artemidoros]

Artemisia said:

I don't believe in giant people but I do believe that there must have been some odd, very tall humans in ancient societies. For example, Rameses II was said to be over 6' tall and for ancient Egyptians, he was almost a giant of their race. Likewise, the Minoans were short people and anyone who was abnormaly tall for their race was probably considered an anomaly or a giant.

Amongst the 700 skeletons of ancient Greek settlers found in Metapontum, the average man's height was just 5'5''. One exceptionally tall man (5'10'') had been suffering from a hormonal imbalance called acromegaly (too bad for Mr. Kemp, he was not part of a Nordic elite ).
The Indian king Porus was supposed to have been 6'3''.

[Artemidoros]

Satyros said:

Heracles fighting with the giant Antaios

Personally I prefer the Cyclopes.

[Artemisia]

Artemidoros said:

Personally I prefer the Cyclopes.

Geee, that's one scary picture, whoever drew it!

[Requiem]

There were no real giant humaniods but there were giant apes!

It was called Gigantopithecus blacki and is said to have been 10 feet tall and weighed 1,200 pounds.

Here is more infomation :

www.wynja.com/arch/gigantopithecus.html

[HINDI]

Artemidoros do you have a source of Poros' lenght?Interesting...

[Ioulianos]

"Most of other writers agree that Poros,whos height was four PIHEIS and one SPITHAMI,was able to ride an elephant because of his height and his body structure..." Plutarchos, Alexander-Caesar

[Ioulianos]

pihis-cubit=45,72cm.spithami-span=22,86cm.Poros was about 2m and 6cm tall.