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God Fighting a Giant
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God Fighting a Giant

The god depicted here is not identified, he is fighting a Giant who has a lion's head, snake legs and a human body. Detail from the Pergamon Altar's frieze (The frieze depictsa Gigantomachy); built in 2nd century BCE. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin...
Herod's Harbor
Article by Patrick Scott Smith, M. A.

Herod's Harbor

Herod's Harbor was a giant port built between 22 and 15 BCE by Herod the Great (r. 37-4 BCE), Rome's client king. Situated on the lower eastern Mediterranean coast north of Alexandria and south of Tyre, with Rome's largess and building skills...
Giant Thiassi Kidnapping Idunn
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Giant Thiassi Kidnapping Idunn

An illustration portraying the Norse goddess of fertility Idunn being kidnapped by the giant Thiassi. Idunn was a guardian of the fruit (usually given as apples) that kept the gods of Asgard eternally young. Due to its rejuvenating properties...
Athena Killing a Giant
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Athena Killing a Giant

Athena separates the Giant Alkyoneus from Earth (in which way he dies), while Gaia, mother of Giants rises from the ground. The goddess Nike helps Athena; Detail from the Pergamon Altar's frieze (The frieze depicts a Gigantomachy); built...
Megaloceros (Giant Elk) Skeleton
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Megaloceros (Giant Elk) Skeleton

Megaloceros giganteus (generally known as Irish- or Giant Elk) skeleton on display at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Megaloceros is an extinct genus of deer that lived from the Late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene...
Warriors Fight a Wolf & Giant Snake
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Warriors Fight a Wolf & Giant Snake

"Warriors Fight a Wolf and Giant Snake" by Ernst Alpers. The modern relief depicts the Norse god Thor battling the wolf Fenrir and Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent. Hannover, Germany. 1867 CE.
Giant Foot at Abu Simbel
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Giant Foot at Abu Simbel

Great Temple (height: 110 feet / 33 meters, width: 127 feet / 38 meters) built under the 19th dynasty. On the facade, four colossuses about 67 feet / 20 meters high represent Rameses II (1290-1223 BCE). The complete work is 270 feet / 68...
Battling Giant
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Battling Giant

The oldest known synagogue mosaic with figurative motifs, this scene depicts a battle between a giant and soldiers armed with swords, shields, and lances. The soldiers are depicted as either wounded or dead. At the edge of the mosaic a cavalryman...
Manabozho Pictograph as a Giant Rabbit
Image by D. Gordon E. Robertson

Manabozho Pictograph as a Giant Rabbit

Nanabozho (Manabozho) pictograph, Mazinaw Rock, Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Photograph by D. Gordon E. Robertson, 2010. The pictograph represents Manabozho as a giant rabbit, one of the many forms the trickster figure would...
Leshan Giant Buddha
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Leshan Giant Buddha

Construction of the famous Leshan Giant Buddha, an enormous statue of a Maitreya (a future Buddha) was started in 713 CE under Xuanzong's reign. A Buddhist monk named Hai Tong began the project to ward off evil spirits from the river at the...
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