Old status post – new requests! A picture of a supposed archaeological find of giant skeletons is currently being shared again on Facebook.
The discovery of giant skeletons in Mexico? This would be a world sensation – if only it were real! Admittedly, the picture is really well taken, but unfortunately the photo is a montage that has already been shared almost 1,500,000 times!
DANGER! NOW COMES A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOING ANSWER!
It is a “fake” because the image was created for a Photoshop competition. Yes, the answer is that boring.
It took third place in the “PS Bonus Contest: Archaeological Anomalies 12” [ 1 ]. The rules for this competition stated that you had to create an archaeological hoax:
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.
Always giants!
But it's not just the image shown above, but also many other similar ones that confuse Internet users when they find them taken out of context on Facebook. We already reported on it .
EVERYTHING is a HUGE fake. With HUGE skull and HUGE bones. And most of them come from this Photoshop competition.

You can often find pictures of giant skeletons on the Internet. Here are a few people who attend these “excavations”. They look small, even cute. The texts address all sorts of myths, stories of bones found in Romania as early as 1940, stories about the biblical Nephilim (prehistoric giants) and so on.
Other sources describe the excavations as discovering skeletons from the ancient Aad tribe in Saudi Arabia. By the way: these people were also considered huge.
All nonsense
However, all of these huge pictures are not real pictures, but all fakes. A little image editing here, a little tweaking of the perspective there – and you have an excavation site of giants.
If you think that this picture, which shows a giant skeleton in an excavation site, is real, you are welcome to look at the original.

Because there is neither a skeleton to be seen there nor any people.

A bony something is quickly inserted with a graphics program, and if you add a story with mythical creatures to it, you have a wonderful hoax.
Photo Effects Contest
And sometimes that’s not meant in a bad way! Because like this, the picture comes from a small graphics competition... from 2002.
(Screenshot: worth1000.com )
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