Giant People in the bible?

That photograph above looks rather like a Classical statue in a box. The fingers don't seem very well separated, for example. An 8- or 9-foot statue would not in itself be remarkable.This message has been edited by contracycle, 08-16-2004 06:35 AM

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Attached is another picture of a coffin with a 12 foot mummy in it which was stored in London's Broad-street goods depot for some time, was photographed by a reporter, then published in Strand Magazine in 1895. (Notice its size as it leans up
against a railway passenger carriage.)

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Just to muddy the water, I have found an alternate provenance of this figure:Image Gallery | Unexplained Mysteries

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Fossilized giant discovered in 1895 by Mr. Dyer during minerary activities in County Antrim, Ireland. In the photo (published by the British magazine "Strand") it is compared to a goods wagon. The main measures were: total height 12ft and 2 in (3.70 m), thoracic circumference 6ft and 6in (1.97 m), length of arms 4ft and 6in (1.37 m), weight 2 tons and 112 lbs (2050 Kg). The right foot had six fingers. After various legal debates to determine the ownership, nobody knows what happened to the giant.

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Note the visual similarity to the Cardiff giant:
Image Gallery | Unexplained MysteriesNot that any of this is sourced, of course