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From 1866 until 1868 Mr. George Hull, of Binghamton, New York studied archeology and paleontology. Over this period of time Hull contemplated how to pull off a hoax. It seems that many an evangelist at the time had been preaching that there were giants in the earth. In June of 1868 Hull traveled back to Fort Dodge, Iowa where there was a gypsum quarry he had recalled seeing two years earlier. Even then, he had noticed that the dark blue streaks running through the soft lime rock resembled human veins. Realizing this its appearance was tailor-made for his hoax and it was easy to carve, Hull hired a group of quarry workers to cut off a slab measuring twelve feet long, four feet wide and two feet thick.
In November, Hull had his gypsum wrapped in canvas and hoisted onto a wagon. Since the nearest railroad was forty miles away, it proved to be a long, difficult job. He then had the slab of gypsum shipped by rail to Chicago where he had hired a stone cutter named Edward Burghardt to carve a giant. Burghardt and his two assistants, were sworn to secrecy and agreed to work on the piece in a secluded barn during their off hours and Sundays. The instructions were to carve the giant as if it had died in great pain, and the final result was an eerie figure, slightly twisted in apparent agony, with his right hand clutching his stomach. All of the details were there; toenails, fingernails, nostrils, sex organs and so forth. Even a needlepoint mallet was used to add authentic-looking skin pores. When the carving was done, sulfuric acid and ink were used to make the figure look aged.
Originally posted by g60kg
I would go with the private owner theory, some of these private collectors have collections that would put the best museums to shame, it all depends on how much money you have and who you know
Originally posted by Patrick_D
Originally posted by g60kg
I would go with the private owner theory, some of these private collectors have collections that would put the best museums to shame, it all depends on how much money you have and who you know
I say, lucky are the ones who saw it.
Many of you will have seen it before...and many have probably drawn the comparison between the elongated skulls and the head shape of some prominant Pharoahs...but I thought I'd offer a reminder.
Originally posted by Marduk
Numbers 13:33
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
hebrew source
33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.'
no mention of giants at all
Originally posted by JOHNNYMURDER
Skull
I don't know the truth...and few people do...but most things lead back to Egypt and I have a feeling thats where much of the truth lies...or was laid..before it was erased, roped off or taken away by whoever had something to lose or gain by it's discovery.
Originally posted by Byrd
And Nefertiti? A cherry-picked picture? She wasn't a giant, either, nor was her skull unusually shaped as a number of her portraits show (there's more than just two portraits of her. But websites with an agenda don't show you the whole data:
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by JOHNNYMURDER
Put it this way...if you had a gold bar and 99.9 of the population believed it to be gold and and 0.1% had evidence that is was fools gold...what would you do?
Would you freely admit that the gold was fake...admit you are liar, admit that you have been wrong all this time, lose your wealth, your power and your status?
Or...would you try and silence that 0.1%..bribe them, hide things from them, lie to them, manipulate them, threaten them...hell...maybe even kill?
Originally posted by dAlen
Sepherim are Elohim (plural - gods) high angels who happen to be fiery reptilian. (fact if you believe Judaic bible (and Christian).
Originally posted by JOHNNYMURDER
Another prime example Marduk
You kill a thread by ridiculing someone.
Please feel free to prove what he is saying is wrong...Oh...you can't can you?
Does anyone else see a pattern forming here?
I don't get this post at all. Seemed to me that it was my post that was ridiculing more than Marduck's (quaaaack!!)
Johnny, you got some personal problem with the 'Duk? Why didn't you come at me? I'm feeling left out!
As for "...prove(ing) what he is saying is wrong...," why is that necessary? The claim was made. Proving it to be right is the onus (borne, by the way, by the claimant) and not proving it wrong.
I dislike the word "prove" here anyway. I always ask for evidence, since there can be no proof per se. Proof exists only in Mathematics.