An ancient Egyptian papyrus held by the British Museum has been cited as possible evidence supporting some of the Bible’s most controversial claims about giants.

The 3,300-year-old document, known as Anastasi I, has been in the museum’s collection since 1839 and has recently resurfaced on the Associates for Biblical Research, renewing interest in its possible links to biblical accounts.

The papyrus describes encounters with the Shosu people, said to stand ‘four cubits or five cubits’ tall, up to eight feet in height.

Several passages describe entire races or tribes of exceptionally large people, some of whom were said to have terrified the Israelites.

In Genesis chapter 6, the Bible states, ‘There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.’

The Hebrew word used in this passage, Nephilim, is commonly translated as either ‘giants’ or ‘fallen ones.’ According to biblical tradition, the Nephilim were wiped out in the Flood, though later texts describe their descendants appearing in future generations.

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