in the u.s alone there are over a thousand accounts of large skeletons unearthed across various sites in the past 200 years often these skeletons are over seven feet tall across the world the story is the same from an ancient roman giant to an extremely tall pharaoh today we’ll be looking at the largest human skeletons ever found let’s begin number 10 australia’s 5 meter skeleton a group of archaeologists from adelaide university unearthed a 5.3 meter 17 foot 4 inches hominid species at the uluru archaeological site the discovery of the uluru archaeological site in 2014 by researchers from the australian national university was in itself an exciting find it led to the discovery of a megalithic civilization that was previously unknown near the ruins of that ancient megalithic civilization archaeologists found the perplexing and extremely large skeleton according to a university of adelaide professor han zimmer the new find is jaw dropping that’s because according to theory a 5 meter skeleton or hominid should not exist the professor conceded that the skeleton raises more questions and provides minimal answers some experts and archaeologists hypothesize that maybe the specimen suffered from an extreme case of gigantism due to an overproduction of growth hormones professor hans insists that such a hypothesis is pure speculation and that only further research will help sort out the truth behind the anomaly moreover such a skeleton is not unique which means that it’s only a matter of time before they find another one when that happens it’ll be easier to come up with a viable conclusion number nine the amazonian giants a british anthropologist russell dement together with a team of german researchers excavated two settlements in the ecuador and peru amazon regions and found skeletons that measure between seven and eight feet in height however he noted that for 25 years he heard from various sources the stories of large amazonians and as a result dedicated his life to studying atuar and schwar amazon indigenous communities as a result he was hopeful that further analysis might lend credibility to the stories that he heard preliminary studies indicated that the skeletons belong to healthy humans who showed no signs of diseases such as hormonal growth problems that often cause gigantism he sent two of the skeletons to fry universitat in germany for further analysis number eight ancient roman giant in 1991 during an excavation in finale a territory rome managed archaeologists found an unusual six foot eight inch skeleton in today’s world it’s normal to come across people who are six feet eight inches tall however in ancient rome third century a.d this was not so the average height of men in that period was five and a half feet consequently a six foot eight inch tall man would have towered over his contemporaries the archaeological superintendent of rome at the time noted that during the excavation the first thing they observed was an abnormally long tomb later during the anthropological examination they discovered that the bones and limbs were also unusual consequently they sent the skeleton to simona minozzi a paleopathologist at the university of pisa in italy minotsi’s team studied the bones and found skull damage which is consistent with a pituitary tumor that kind of tumor affects the pituitary gland and as a result it produces excess human growth hormone minotsy and his team thus concluded that the skeleton provided enough evidence to support a pituitary abnormality as the cause for gigantism number seven a very tall pharaoh scientists who were part of ongoing research into mummies reported in 2017 that they might have found the oldest case of gigantism the scientists believe that the remains which were first unearthed in 1901 belonged to a giant synact a pharaoh of ancient egypt prior research had already proven that these particular remains date back to the third dynasty of egypt which is about 2 400 years before christ at the time the average height of men in egypt was 5 feet 7 inches however this particular skeleton would have stood at 6 foot 1.6 inches or 1.987 meters tall admittedly kings of ancient egypt were better fed and probably grew taller than normal men however even with this in mind the scientist noted that this particular skeleton towered over ramesses ii who is the tallest recorded pharaoh of egypt at 5 feet 9 inches the conclusion therefore is that the skeleton’s long bones showed signs of gigantism making the synoct the oldest known case of the disorder number six miami valley eight foot one and a half inch skeleton in 1899 edward g gebhardt and edward kaufman discovered an unusually large fossilized skeleton in miami valley ohio while working in a gravel pit the skeleton belonged to a man who was eight feet one and a half inch tall at the time it was one of the largest human skeletons ever recorded in human history archaeologists noted that the skeleton was of prehistoric age and according to a dr harlan a dentist in miamisburg the skeleton’s teeth were in perfect condition and as human as teeth can be however scientists who examined the skull discovered that the skull was of a low order essentially just a shade higher than the pithocanthropist that dr dubois found in java that puzzled scientists because despite other human features the skeleton skull differed little from the head of a present-day gorilla number 5 the irish curiosity technically the irish curiosity’s not so much a skeleton that was found but rather an unusually tall man who lived between 1761 and 1783 and whose skeleton was displayed at the huntarian museum after his death the irish giant’s name was charles byrne and while most accounts put his height at between 8 feet 2 inches and 8 feet 4 inches skeletal evidence shows that he was just over seven feet seven inches when he was alive many people made up stories about the cause of his great height and one popular story was that he was conceived on top of a haystack during his teen years charles left ireland for britain and became a celebrity thanks to his height most people referred to him as the wonderful irish giant unfortunately he didn’t live long and at the age of 22 he passed on after his death anatomist and pre-eminent surgeon jon hunter went against byrne’s wishes that he be buried at sea and instead reduced charles corpse to its skeleton and displayed it at his museum the hunterian museum in 1909 an american surgeon studied the skeleton and surmised that child’s burn had a pituitary tumor that caused his gigantism number four the san diego giant on october 7 1895 a newspaper known as the world reported that a mummy of the biggest man who ever lived had been found near san diego according to the paper professor thomas wilson a curator in the department of prehistoric anthology in the smithsonian institute together with other scientists had inspected and even measured the skeleton the skeleton measured roughly nine feet but other reports indicate that the mummy’s actual height was eight feet four inches the paper also reported that the skeleton belonged to a native american and it was prehistoric however due to inferior dating methods at the time scientists could not determine the exact age moreover the skeleton’s height greatly puzzled the scientists because there were no records of such people existing in the year 1908 the san diego mummy disappeared from the museum as a result the san diego giant has always been embroiled in controversy with some dismissing it as a hoax number three 18 strange giant skeletons in the year 1912 the new york times reported the discovery of 18 giant skeletons the skeletons were discovered by a team of archaeologists from the university beloit college of wisconsin at an excavation near lake delavan according to the article the skeleton’s heights ranged from seven feet six inches to 10 feet tall their skulls though human were larger than the skulls of any race that inhabited america at the time moreover they had six fingers six toes and a double row of teeth similar to humans but they had regular molars in the front of the jaw scientists concluded that the larger than average skull was the result of a longer life span soon after the discovery the skeletons disappeared and not much is known about them since then many people have proposed that the government deliberately erased all manner of evidence that pointed to a race of extremely tall people or giants others have dismissed the reports of giants as a hoax either way one cannot deny that according to newspapers of the time archaeologists indeed found these large human skeletons number 2 iowa’s mysterious mounds in 1897 archaeologists found the skeleton of a giant while digging through a mound in iowa a newspaper article at the time termed the discovery a matter of official record according to measurements the giant must have stood at seven feet six inches when alive unfortunately the skeleton crumbled to dust when exposed to the air but archaeologists unearthed other artifacts such as a collar made of boar’s teeth that were around the skeleton’s neck and small copper beads across the thighs the artifacts suggest the giant was of high stature in another mound still in iowa archaeologists found a large chamber with 11 skeletons that were also quite large the skeletons were arranged in a circle and they had their backs against the wall a seashell that had been converted into a drinking cup was at the center of the circle and archaeologists believe it might have been a case of mass suicide number one serpent mound ohio the great serpent mound is one of the most well documented skeleton finds in american history the mound is a 1 370 foot effigy mound near pebbles ross hamilton a researcher and writer has researched the mound thoroughly and written about the giants found at the mound in the 1890s another researcher professor frederick ward putnam excavated some of the mounds near the serpent mound though he only found six foot tall skeletons archaeologists still believed that the actual mounds harbored giants just recently researcher jeffrey wilson discovered a postcard showing a seven foot tall skeleton from the serpent mound no one knows if the seven foot skeleton is among those discovered by putnam since he’s the only person to have ever dug at the site the debate among the archaeologists is ongoing and even jeffrey wilson does not have the answers however one thing they all agree on is that the postcard is legitimate and that it definitely depicts a giant what do you think are these documented instances of large human skeletons legit also check out some of our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time [Music] you
10 Largest Human Skeletons Ever Found!
