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A collection of photographs purportedly showing the remains of giant humanoids, dubbed the Canaan or Nephilim skeletons, have been making the internet round since as far back as 2004: The images were assembled from various individual hoaxes that presented them with varying back stories sourcing them to recent archeological discoveries in the Mediterranean (e.g., Greece), the Middle East (e.g., Iran, Saudi Arabia), or India, and tying them to Biblical accounts of giants: Of course, none of these supposedly remarkable archeological discoveries has ever found its way into a museum or the pages of a scientific journal. Like multiple other instances of giant skeleton and skull photographs, these images are all digital manipulations, often ones created for Photoshop contests hosted by various websites. The two pictures on the right-hand side of the top row, for example, are manipulated photographs of a 1993 University of Chicago dinosaur dig in Niger to which someone has added an image of a giant skull. No such skull appears in the original photographs: In a 2007 article, National Geographic offered an account from the creator of a similar giant skeleton hoax photograph: As we frequently point out, we don’t need to know the specific origins of all of these photographs to definitively determine that they’re fakes. The square-cube law makes it a physical impossibility that humanoids of the size and proportions represented by these bones could ever have existed:
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