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World's Largest Pyramid Discovered in Bosnia?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-where-the-aliens-really-landed dept.

kieran writes "Archaeologists have apparently begun to unearth a massive pyramid which had been masquerading as a hill in the Bosnian town of Visoko. At an estimated 722ft in height, it is expected to be 1/3 taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza."

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  1. Location via Google Maps by byteCoder · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's not much resolution from this satellite image, but here's the pyramid's location using Google maps.

  2. Color me dubious. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm a little dubious here - the lead of this project, Semir Osmanagic says (from abc) he sees astonishing similarities between the structures and Mexican pyramids dating back to about 200 AD, which also come in pairs, one believed to represent the Sun and the other the Moon.

    How can he know that with so little excavated? And his foundation has the rather fortean-timesish name of "Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation"

    There's a far better (and longer) article at the art newspaper.

    You can also the have a look at the photos of the hill (scroll down) in this bosnian forum (yup, looks like a pyramid).

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    1. Re:Color me dubious. by permaculture · · Score: 5, Informative

      Sorry fellas, he's just another nutjob:

      http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanag ic/
      "Too bad that it is not a credible story at all. In fact, it is impossible. Who is the "archaeologist" who has taken the media for a ride? Why did the media not check the story more carefully? ARCHAEOLOGY will address these questions in depth in our next issue, July/August, but for now let's at least put the lie to the claims emanating from Visoko, the town 20 miles northwest of Sarajevo where the "Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun" is located."

      Read on about his wacky book, and it becomes clear the media's not doing their job. AGAIN!

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  3. News for the gullible, stuff from last year. by pla · · Score: 5, Informative

    Always right on top of things, eh, editors?

    First: The Bosnian "pyramid" (a roughly four-sided hill where they've found nothing but a mound of dirt so far) hit the news last year, in Early November IIRC.

    Second, the fellow cho claims it a pyramid ranks right up there with Uri Gellar as far as credibility goes, according to Archaology last week.


    So +5 for topical, but minus a million for reporting on entirely the wrong end of the issue. They didn't just discover it, they just debunked the discovery.