They try to disguise it with mistranslations as being "head and shoulders taller", but in earlier translations and tracing back to the original Hebrew we find in 1 Sam 9:
From his shoulders upward, he was taller than all the people.
Unless he had a real long neck, he must have had a real long head.
One can further infer that longheads were not exceptional at the time, since the Bible doesn't specifically note that. By analogy, one might note that a woman has real big boobs, but would not specifically note that she is a person with boobs since that is taken as literally unremarkable.
I hope I didn't offend anyone by talking about the Bible and boobs in the same comment.
King Saul was one of these "longheads".
They try to disguise it with mistranslations as being "head and shoulders taller", but in earlier translations and tracing back to the original Hebrew we find in 1 Sam 9:
Unless he had a real long neck, he must have had a real long head.
One can further infer that longheads were not exceptional at the time, since the Bible doesn't specifically note that. By analogy, one might note that a woman has real big boobs, but would not specifically note that she is a person with boobs since that is taken as literally unremarkable.
I hope I didn't offend anyone by talking about the Bible and boobs in the same comment.
Then there was Pericles, who Plutarch recorded as having an unusually long head.