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Submitted by MichelDRN on Thursday, 07 December 2006 Page Views: 18584
Natural PlacesSite Name: Visoko Pyramid of the Sun Alternative Name: Piramida Sunca, Bosnian PyramidCountry: Bosnia
NOTE: This site is 1.413 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Sarejevo Nearest Village: Visoko
Latitude: 43.977000N Longitude: 18.177000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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ModernExplorers visited on 3rd Aug 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Is it a hill? is it a Pyramid??
There is enough evidence to suggest it is more than a hill. I was there for a 2 week volunteer program but I must return to investigate further.
There are huge slabs of a concrete-type material, tunnels running underneath, healing properties
Its face over Visoko is partly covered with huge slabs of stone, composed of pebbles linked with a "kind of cement" that the local "guides" pretend to be artificial.
I identify it just as natural "pudding stone", a conglomerate of pebbles and natural (I assume silica) stone. It results probably from the second era when a former river or sea bottom was pushed deep into the earth and transformed into stone by pressure and heat.
Then during the third era the raise of the complex alpine/dalmatian chain created external folds, among them the bosnian hills, where horizontal layers of schists and pudding stone were exhausted, folded, cracked and now show curious, but natural features.
I take all rantings about egyptiano-maya pyramids and other unbelievable stories told by locals as an excellent way to develop local business.
[bat400, admin] Background Information:
Osmanagić's campaign proposing the Visoko hills as man made pyramids started in 2005. The owner / CEO of a metals manufacturing firm is the author of several 'alternative history' books positing, among other theories, that the Maya were descendents of aliens from the Pleiades who had previously founded Atlantis, and that Hitler created a secret underground base in Antartica. His Bosnian pyramid theory states that the structures were built between 12,000 BC and 500 BC, although the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Fundation website lists a construction date of 10,000 BC. Excavations at the site have uncovered what Osmanagić states is a paved entrance plateau and tunnels, as well as stone blocks and ancient mortar which he has suggested once covered the structure.
An example of a primary archaeological refutation was stated by Curtis Runnels (Boston University,) an expert in prehistoric Greece and the Balkans, that the hunter gatherers of that time period have left no articfacts or structures consistant with megalithic architecture.
In May 2006, members of the Geological team investigating Visočica on behalf of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation held a press conference in Tuzla to present the results of their research. The academics (University of Tuzla, Faculty of Mining and Geology) led by Dr. Sejfudin Vrabac, concluded that the hill is a natural geological formation, made of clastic sediments of layered composition and varying thickness, and that its shape is a consequence of endodynamical and exodynamical processes in the post-Miocene era.
Among other arguments against the pyramid theory is the lack of artefacts, tools, and tool marks. Both laymen and academics have seen the excavation projects as a construction process in itself. As Joshua Foer of Outside magazine said, "It dawns on me, and I'm shocked that it has taken me so long to figure this out, that Osmanagic is carving pyramids out of these pyramid-shaped hills."
Meanwhile, Osmanagić' has revealed the Pyramid of the Sun was an ancient energy source represented by an iron plate "combined with the negative ions and underground water streams and it’s able to generate the electricity of over 10 kW."
Note: After four year lawsuit, the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo issues a final verdict upholding the complainant. Bosnian Pyramid project finally gets its green light to continue excavations, see comment
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