Shocking Archaeological Discoveries: Giant Skull Suddenly Revealed After Earthquake and Torrential Rain

Tales of races of giant men who lived long ago are found in the scriptures of many religions. They have long been the subject of public hoaxs (such as the Cardiff Giant) and are now a favorite subject of Internet pranksters. They’re also a fascination of pseudoscientists, particularly those at Worth1000, a site devoted to hosting contests in which entrants show off their skills at manipulating photos using digital editing programs.

The above image falls into the latter category. It doesn’t show giant human skulls that were revealed after a massive earthquake struck South America, but rather a digital creation entitled “Giant Discovery” that claimed 4th Place in Worth1000’s (now DesignCrowd) Archaeological Anomalies 12 contest back in 2008.

In this contest, you are to create an archaeological hoax, maybe Atlantis, a 2,000-year-old Coca-Cola can or a giant’s skull. Be open-minded, there are many mysteries buried beneath the earth. The rules of this game are thus:

You are to create an archaeological hoax. Your job is to show a picture of an archaeological discovery that looks so real, had it not appeared at Worth1000, people might have done a double take.

In any case, we don’t need to know the specifics or origins of this image to definitively determine that it’s a fake. The square-cube law makes it a physical impossibility that humanoids of the size depicted could exist. The sheer cube-law makes it a physical impossibility that humanoids of the size depicted could exist.

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