The extinct giant species

The elephantine species...the extinct species
In the aboriginal nineties of the past century, I was the lone doc successful the constabulary who had a stun squad, and I was sent to (Assiut Security Teams), which periodically spell retired successful raids successful the eastbound plateau to comb caves successful pursuit of terrorists, particularly successful the (Badari) area.
It was mean for maine to travel the ample expeditions that went retired earlier dawn to scope the caves successful the mediate of the time and beryllium capable to instrumentality aft sunset. I bash not cognize precisely however galore expeditions I participated in, but it is surely much than a hundred.
In 1 of these campaigns, a worker fell from a twelve-meter precocious cliff during the outbound trip, and truthful I descended to the borderline of the upland wherever helium fell, utilizing ropes. I americium 1 of the nursing recruits, and the archetypal diagnosis was (a fracture of the pons successful some feet and the coccyx bone). The fracture was repaired and 2 beardown splints were made for his legs, but helium It was definite that helium would not beryllium capable to ascend unless helium was lifted up by helicopter, and truthful the expedition near america and I began to determination backmost and forth, and I, the nursing recruit, and the injured idiosyncratic sat waiting for the helicopter, which would not travel until aft the raid was complete, truthful arsenic not to pull the attraction of the pursued terrorists successful the caves.
I noticed a hidden cave opening that led to Jebi Cave connected the aforesaid cliff. Using almighty flashlights, I was capable to attack and participate the cave, lone to find that it expands erstwhile the opening is crossed.
And connected the ground
I recovered (a wholly eroded assemblage of a quality with the skeleton of a wolf oregon a elephantine canine adjacent to it). What is precise absorbing is that the quality assemblage was astir 10 feet gangly astatine the least. At that time, I had not work astir (the Nephalem) nor the fallen angels. All I knew was (the Greek giants, the Titans) from Ovid’s publication The Metamorphosis of Beings. Metamorphosis) Unfortunately, mobile phones and portable cameras were not yet known
I did not cognize what I could do, but I knew 1 thing, which was that I should not determination thing truthful arsenic not to spoil (the effect). When the chopper came, I tried hard to stabilize and find the spot truthful that we could instrumentality to it again, my brother, but the pilot’s negligence did not let maine to bash so.
      
When we arrived astatine the assemblage hospital, I was wholly occupied with the process of stabilizing the fractures, and I finished it late, truthful I returned to Al-Badari to await the instrumentality of the campaign. There I sat successful the location of the caput of Al-Badari and its mayor, to whom I told what I had seen. Then the antheral got up and brought maine respective (books) that I knew were (very aged civilian grounds books) and began to flip done them. Until helium reached a circumstantial leafage and pointed it to me
So I started speechmaking the beauteous calligraphy that resembled calligraphers’ handwriting
(I, Al-Yuzbashi Reda, went with Sheikh Al-Ghafir to the location of to corroborate the study that his girl had been kidnapped from the barn located extracurricular the roundabout.
The memoir narrates that the parent saw 3 giants with a wolf wearing cattle skins who kidnapped her girl and acceptable disconnected toward the mountain, and that the Yuzbashi learned that this was an aged occupation that was repeated connected acold days each fewer years, and that these giants mostly kidnapped livestock, but from clip to clip they kidnapped women, and that combing the adjacent caves had revealed There were signs of fire, but nary motion of the kidnappers.
I saw the representation and was struck by the information that the assemblage looked precisely similar what I saw
(I deliberation I besides watched respective years agone a documentary that was hidden by the Russian KGB astir the find of a tomb adjacent the Step Pyramid of a mummy up to 10 feet tall.)
I did not retrieve this incidental until I reviewed my diaries for that period