When I was visiting Morocco quite a few years ago, the owner of the Riad we were staying at took my girlfriend and a I to visit a local archeological site. The only person there was a security guard who was also a friend of his. He let us in and showed us around. I watched him talk to our ‘guide’ with excitement in Arabic/french and our guide kept prompting him as if to clarify. He then turned to us. He explained that multiple bodies in excess of 12-16feet tall had been recovered from the site along with swords taller than him (5 10” - 6ft) he pointed to all the spots the bodies were as well as swords and other things.

He then said, the US embassy had taken control of the site a few days/weeks earlier and cleared the place out - as well as dismissing the archeological team. Americans were being brought in to replace them.

What’s interesting is that the site is massive and some of the in-tact buildings were ‘normal’ sized and had been used as tombs for these giants prior to being covered.

The site was in Agmat at the base of the Atlas Mountains.

Edit: found the site https://www.archaeological.org/aia-and-hilton-worldwide-award-site-preservation-grant-to-moroccan-site/