Cardiff Giant

The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3. 0 m), roughly 3,000 pound purported "petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C.

"Stub" Newell, in Cardiff, New York.
He covered the giant with a tent and it soon became an attraction site.
Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.

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