Does a photo show skeleton of giant being unearthed? Fact Check

A number of photos online purport to show the skeletal remains of a giant being unearthed by archaeologists.

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Numerous photos have appeared online over the years claiming to show the moments in which giant skeletal remains have been unearthed by scientists or archaeologists. However nearly all such photos have been dismissed as having been digitally altered.

Perhaps the most prolific within this niche can be traced back to “Photoshop” contests, frequently held on sites like DesignCrowd (previously Worth1000) – so much so that the design website has accumulated many of the popular variants that have spread online and posted them onto a blog post debunking them as fake.

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That includes this particularly popular example, which spread way back in 2003/04 along with the caption that it shows the remains of a giant being unearthed in Saudi Arabia.

More recent examples to have spread around Twitter include the below two images, but again both were actually entrants into design competitions.

The below photo appears to show another unearthing of a giant skeleton, but again this has been digitally altered using the photo below that.

Not all images have been digitally altered, however. The below image – which circulating online frequently with captions claiming it shows the body of the biblical Goliath – actually shows artwork from Italian artist Gino De Domonicis, called Calamita Cosmica (Cosmic Magnet) and was first uploaded back in 2007.

And finally, one such image is indeed genuine. But it doesn’t show a giant human skeleton. The below photo was spread thanks to the popular (yet totally fake) website World News Daily Report (who have appeared a number of times on ThatsNonsense.com) who claimed this human skeleton was unearthed in Australia.

Yes, the photo is real, but actually shows the unearthing of a giant mammoth, in France.

Countless other examples have circulated online over the years, making it one of the longest and persistent types of Internet-age urban legends to date. However, despite the numerous “evidence”, there has not been one single account of such a giant skeleton making its way onto the pages of a scientific journal, much less a museum.

As such, all known circulating photos purporting to show giant skeletons are presently ranked false.