The Battlefield Of The Giants

Before there have been any humans,” the Greek student Solinus wrote one,800 years past, “a battle was fought between the gods and therefore the giants.”

To Solinus, this was no story. He knew for a proven fact that giants had once roamed the world. He’d seen their bones himself.

He was writing a few city referred to as Pallene wherever Greek mythology tells North American country that mythical being had destroyed a lawless tribe of giants. anytime it rained, Solinus wrote, large bones would reach out of the bottom “like men’s carcasses however way larger.”[1]

For a lot of of history, Solinus was written off as a cheat. Then, in 1994, a storm hit the place wherever Pallene had once stood and a denizen uncovered what he believed was a giant’s tooth. the traditional city became the location of a earth science dig. There, we tend to found the remains of ancient mastodons.

The Greeks had solely found their remains one bone at a time. With no conception of mastodons, they assumed that they were gazing the remains of large men. To them, it absolutely was concrete proof that they’d designed their city on prime of a giants’ memorial park.