Prof Finds "Prehistoric" Giants in Egypt and Scientists Find 7 Foot Tall Mummy in Million Mummy Cemetery-1881 Article of 12 Foot Tall Skeletons

Over the last few days I've been trying to put some meat on the bones so to speak of an 1881 newspaper article, widely reported (same article in multiple papers) that a Prof Timmerman had found 60 mummies in or around the temple of Isis on the Nile-- with some of them as tall as 12 feet and with the smallest at over 7 feet.

Then yesterday on Livescience there was a story about Brigham Young researchers finding a million mummy cemetery in Egypt with one of the mummies being over 7 feet tall... Also, a few posts back for us is a post and picture of an alleged giant, mummified ancient Egyptian hand...

Shorts from both stories follow:

Prehistoric Egyptian Giants
Manning Times March 25 1896

"In 1881, when professor Timmerman was engaged in exploring the ruins of an ancient temple of Isis on the banks of the Nile, 16 miles below Najar Djfard, he opened a row of tombs in which some prehistoric race of giants had been buried.
The smallest skeleton out of some 60 odd, which were examined during the time Timmerman was excavating at Najar Djfard, measured seven feet and eight inches in length and the largest eleven feet one inch.

Memorial tablets were discovered in great numbers, but there was no record that even hinted that they were in the memory of men of extraordinary size. It is believed that the tombs date back to the year 1043 B.C."
Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed in Egypt

by Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | December 16, 2014 07:43am ET

"...The cemetery is now called Fag el-Gamous, which means "Way of the Water Buffalo," a title that comes from the name of a nearby road. Archaeologists from Brigham Young University have been excavating Fag el-Gamous, along with a nearby pyramid, for about 30 years. Many of the mummies date to the time when the Roman or Byzantine Empire ruled Egypt, from the 1st century to the 7th century A.D. [See photos of the million-mummy cemetery]

"We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It's large, and it's dense," Project Director Kerry Muhlestein, an associate professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University, said in a paper he presented at the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholars Colloquium, which was held last month in Toronto.

Million mummy mystery

Where exactly these million mummies came from is an ongoing mystery, and one that the team has yet to solve. A nearby village seems too small to warrant such a large cemetery, the researchers said. There is an ancient town named Philadelphia (so named after King Ptolemy II Philadelphus) not far away, but that town has burial sites of its own. [8 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries]

While there is a small pyramid nearby, it was built more than 4,500 years ago, which is more than two millennia before the cemetery was first used.
"It's hard to know where all these people were coming from," Muhlestein told Live Science.

A mummy over 7 feet tall

The stories that these million mummies tell appear endless. The Brigham Young team has excavated more than 1,000 of the mummies over the past 30 years, and Muhlestein admits the team has a publishing backlog.

One discovery that hasn't been published is of a mummy who is more than 7 feet (2 meters) tall. "We once found a male who was over 7 feet tall who was far too tall to fit into the shaft, so they bent him in half and tossed him in," Muhlestein told the audience in Toronto. http://www.livescience.com/49147-egyptian-cemetery...

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