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',.. and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.’ Neither the full blast of the priestly lungs nor a fanfare of many thousand trumpets could blow down walls twenty-one feet thick. But we know today that sound waves with deadly low hertz frequencies would have been perfectly capable of bringing down the walls of Jericho. When Dr Mottier, an archaeologist at Berne University, and I were taking part in a debate on the Swiss Radio, she told me that giants had never existed because there were no fossil finds from which we could infer the existence of such a race. However, Dr Lovis Burkhalter, former French delegate to the Prehistoric Society, holds a quite different opinion. In 1950, he wrote in the Revue du Musee de Beyrouth: 'I want to make it clear that the existence of gigantic men in the Acheulian age must be considered a scientifically proven fact.’ Which side is right? At all events, tools of abnormal size have been found that could not have been handled by men of normal stature. Archaeologists excavated flint implements weighing nearly 8 1/2 Ib near Sasnych (four miles from Safita in Syria). The flint tools found at Ain Fritissa (Eastern Morocco) are not to be sneezed at either. They were 12 1/2 ins long, 8 1/2 ins wide and weighed 9 1/4 Ib. If we make a calculation based on the normal human stature and constitution, the beings who were able to handle these clumsy implements Apart from finds of tools, at least three scientifically accepted finds point to the existence of giants in the past: 1. The Java giant. 2. The South China giant. 3. The South African (Transvaal) giant. What race did they represent? Were they lone- wolves? Were they the wrongly programmed products of mutations? Were they the direct descendants of gigantic cosmonauts from another world? Were they especially intelligent beings with advanced technical know-how who had originated according to the genetic code? The fossil finds give no conclusive answers to my questions. They are too meagre to form the stones for building up a proper genealogy. Will such a family tree ever be systematically investigated in some specially chosen region? Sensational discoveries are reported from time to time, but they nearly must have been about 12 ft tall. always turn out to be chance finds. But documents—and we ought to take the old sources literally—clearly confirm the former existence