Cardiff Giant

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The Cardiff Giant being exhumed during October 1869
The Cardiff Giant displayed at the Bastable in Syracuse, New York, circa 1869

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 pounds (1,400 kg) 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 a tourist attraction. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P. T. Barnum are still being displayed.

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