Editing Nephilim (section)

==Fossil remains of giants ==
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Alleged discoveries of Nephilim remains have been a common source of hoaxing and misidentification.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mikkelson |first=David |date=2019-01-20 |title=Are these giant human skeleton photographs real? |website=[[Snopes]] (snopes.com) |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/giant-human-skeleton-photographs/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |lang=en }}</ref> 

In 1577, a series of large bones discovered near [[Lucerne]] were interpreted as the bones of an [[antediluvian]] giant about {{cvt|19|ft|m|order=flip}} tall.<ref>{{cite book |year=1880 |title=Library of Universal Knowledge |publisher=American Book Exchange |volume=7 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DMVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Lucerne+1577&pg=PA64 }}</ref> In 1786, [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]] found out that these remains belonged to a [[mammoth]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Bondeson |first=Jan |year=1997 |chapter=Giants in the Earth |title=A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1501733451 |page=72 |doi=10.7591/9781501733451-005 |s2cid=194301745 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501733451-005/pdf }}</ref> [[Cotton Mather]] believed that [[fossil]]ized leg bones and teeth discovered near [[Albany, New York|Albany]], New York in 1705 were the remains of Nephilim who perished in [[Genesis flood narrative|a great flood]]. [[Paleontologist]]s have identified these as [[mastodon]] remains.<ref>{{cite book |last = Rigal |first = Laura |year = 2001 |title = American Manufactory: Art, labor, and the world of things in the early republic |publisher = Princeton University Press |place=Princeton, NJ |isbn = 978-0691089515 |page = 91 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-aNPS9dAUrEC&pg=PA91 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last = Rose |first = Mark |date = November–December 2005 |title = When giants roamed the Earth |journal = [[Archaeology (magazine)|Archaeology]] |volume=58 |number=6 |url = http://archive.archaeology.org/0511/etc/giants.html |access-date = 15 October 2014 }}</ref>
In 1869, the [[Cardiff Giant]], a hoax intended to fool believers in Nephilim, was supposedly discovered in [[Cardiff, New York]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Feder |first=Kenneth L. |year=1995 |title=Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and pseudoscience in archaeology |publisher=Mayfield Pub |oclc=604139167 |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/604139167 }}</ref>