"You don't have to be an expert
to realize what this is."
"With eyes trained to recognize pyramids hidden in the hills of El Salvador, Mexico and Peru, Semir Osmanagic has been drawn to the mound overlooking Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"No pyramids are known in Europe, and there is no evidence any ancient civilization there ever attempted to build one. But Osmanagic, a Bosnian archaeologist who has spent the last 15 years studying the pyramids of Latin America, suspects there is one here in his Balkan homeland.
"'It has all the elements: four perfectly shaped slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, a flat top and an entrance complex,' he said, gazing at the hill and wondering what lies beneath.
"'We have already dug out stone blocks which I believe are covering the pyramid,' he said. 'We found a paved entrance plateau and discovered underground tunnels. You don't have to be an expert to realize what this is.'
"After obtaining a permit to research the site, which is protected by the state as a national monument, the first probes of the main hill were carried out this summer at six points. Nadja Nukic, a geologist involved in the research, said she found 15 anomalies suggesting that some layers of the hill were manmade.
"'We found layers of what we call "bad concrete," a definitely unnatural mixture of gravel once used to form blocks with which this hill was covered,' Osmanagic said.
"'The hill was already there,' he added. 'Some ancient civilization just shaped it and then coated it with this primitive concrete - and there you have a pyramid.'
"Small-scale excavations continued until early November, when winter set in, with the work focusing on what Osmanagic theorizes may have been the entrance to a pyramid-shaped temple.
"Osmanagic believes the hill was shaped by the Illyrian people, who inhabited the Balkan peninsula long before Slavic tribes conquered it around A.D. 600. Little is known about the Illyrians, but Osmanagic thinks they were more sophisticated than many experts have suggested."
"No pyramids are known in Europe, and there is no evidence any ancient civilization there ever attempted to build one. But Osmanagic, a Bosnian archaeologist who has spent the last 15 years studying the pyramids of Latin America, suspects there is one here in his Balkan homeland.
"'It has all the elements: four perfectly shaped slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, a flat top and an entrance complex,' he said, gazing at the hill and wondering what lies beneath.
"'We have already dug out stone blocks which I believe are covering the pyramid,' he said. 'We found a paved entrance plateau and discovered underground tunnels. You don't have to be an expert to realize what this is.'
"After obtaining a permit to research the site, which is protected by the state as a national monument, the first probes of the main hill were carried out this summer at six points. Nadja Nukic, a geologist involved in the research, said she found 15 anomalies suggesting that some layers of the hill were manmade.
"'We found layers of what we call "bad concrete," a definitely unnatural mixture of gravel once used to form blocks with which this hill was covered,' Osmanagic said.
"'The hill was already there,' he added. 'Some ancient civilization just shaped it and then coated it with this primitive concrete - and there you have a pyramid.'
"Small-scale excavations continued until early November, when winter set in, with the work focusing on what Osmanagic theorizes may have been the entrance to a pyramid-shaped temple.
"Osmanagic believes the hill was shaped by the Illyrian people, who inhabited the Balkan peninsula long before Slavic tribes conquered it around A.D. 600. Little is known about the Illyrians, but Osmanagic thinks they were more sophisticated than many experts have suggested."
"You don't have to be an expert
to realize what this is."
mr damon, 19:22
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In Bosnia Herzegovina anything is possible?
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