This is interesting: "Long-lost Egyptian scroll fuels debate over real-life biblical giants"--Daily Mail. The article relates:
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.
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Associates for Biblical Research highlighted this passage as evidence that the Shosu, who may have been Canaanites, were of exceptional size.
'This would mean that the height of those encountered varied from at least six feet eight inches to eight feet six inches,' the researchers wrote.
'This is particularly interesting when you consider that a main point in the letter regards the need for accuracy.'
Other experts noted, however, that the Shosu (or Shasu) are widely understood by historians to have been a nomadic group in the Levant, suggesting the papyrus may reflect military observations rather than literal claims of supernatural giants.
Oh no, it fell outside the accepted narrative so the "experts" have to deflect and confuse the issues by interjecting that "giants" must mean "supernatural" rather than just really tall people, especially compared to Egyptians who probably were only around 5 feet or so.
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