The treatment of giants and modern disclosure follows the same institutional sequence. First, acknowledgment. Early reports of oversized human remains were documented, discussed, and placed within academic reach. Then came reclassification. The language softened, references thinned, and access narrowed. Finally, silence. Not refutation, not resolution, just absence.
Modern disclosure operates the same way. Physical evidence is admitted. Terminology changes. Context is restricted. The public is told enough to accept the category, but not enough to trace its origins. In both cases, the shift is not about truth, it is about control of narrative scope.
When giants disappeared from public archaeology, they did not vanish biologically. They vanished administratively. Disclosure today is not revealing something new. It is managing how much of the old context is allowed back in.