The beautiful alabaster sarcophagus discovered near Thebes in 1817 and now in Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London measures 9 feet 4 inches long.

This unique example, the finest extant, is well worth inspection by visitors in London.
Herodotus says the shoes of Perseus measured an equivalent of about 3 feet, English standard.

Josephus tells of Eleazar, a Jew, among the hostages sent by the King of Persia to Rome, who was nearly 11 feet high.

Saxo, the grammarian, mentions a giant 13 1/2 feet high and says he had 12 companions who were double his height.

Ferragus, the monster supposed to have been slain by Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne, was said to have been nearly 11 feet high.