Makhunik: the Iranian city of the world's smallest humans?
An ancient village in the south of Khorasan province (Iran), the city of the smallest humans in the world, amazes with its extremely small size. In 2005, not far from the miniature city, the body of an individual measuring just 25 cm was found.
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· 19 May 2024
On this journals I have often talked about giant human beings who, according to some indications, inhabited our planet in a remote time. However, despite the great literature on giants, little if any convincing archaeological evidence has ever been shown to the general public. Different case, however, for "dwarf" human beings. A few years ago, the discovery of a fossilized body of a small human species, renamed Homo floresiensis caused a sensation. Lived 13 thousand years ago, he was just over one meter tall and with a cranial capacity of 380 cm 3 , much smaller not only compared to his contemporaries, but also to all the known hominids t...