World's Largest Pyramid Discovered in Bosnia?

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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Location via Google Maps

[byteCoder]

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

Re:Location via Google Maps

[gardyloo]

We could not calculate driving directions between Redmond, WA and 43.978000N 18.178000E

      Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

Re:Location via Google Maps

[Itninja]

Google Maps is awesome. I can hardly wait for 6-10 years to pass so I can see what they are doing today.

Re:Location via Google Maps

[MOtisBeard]

What nobody seems to have realized is that, not only does the Bosnian pyramid sit directly over the center of the Earth, but if you draw a straight line between it and the Great Pyramid of Cheops (aka Kufu) in Egypt, then extend that line in the same direction, it will bisect the Earth into two exactly equal hemispheres. Obviously proof of either unsuspected high technology in ancient times, or the intervention of some space-faring alien civilization.

Color me dubious.

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

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).

Re:Color me dubious.

[permaculture]

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!

Re:Color me dubious.

[qwijibo]

Given adequate funding, anyone could unearth a pyramid. They're everywhere, just covered with dirt and rocks. The biggest curiousity is how the rocks covering the pyramid bonded with the rocks that make up the pyramid. The bonds are so strong that unearthing the pyramid almost seems like you have to carve it out of the mountain. This phenomena can't currently be explained by archaeologists.

While that archaeology web site makes some interesting arguments, they're completely ignoring the possibility that aliens constructed the pyramid. This theory, made popular by the film Alien Vs Predator, has not been discredited by serious researchers. They simply dismiss the theory without so much as communicating with the aliens to get their perspective. It's simply not fair that the crack pot viewpoint is completely disregarded by the so called legitimate research community. It's discrimination and it's wrong. =)

News for the gullible, stuff from last year.

[pla]

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.

Re:News for the gullible, stuff from last year.

[pla]

They found cut and polished stone blocks.

You live in the US, correct?

We Americans have a somewhat different view of what it means to find traces of a civilization than do Europeans.

In the US, if you go out and dig in your backyard and find something man-made and more than a few hundred years old, you've most likely really found something of archaeological interest.

In Europe, you can set up a dig just about anywhere and find crumbled bricks, broken pottery, or some other traces of very very old human civilization.

Hell, for another recent news item to make my point, the UK Times Online reports that archaeologists just found an almost perfectly preserved Roman city in Spain - Which the Spanish felt so impressed by, they promptly turned it into a parking lot.



And it's perfectly reasonable to assume that his wild-assed guess of 12,000 B.C.E. is totally wrong, while he's 100% correct about the pyramid's existance.

I agree that ad hominem doesn't disprove the existance of a pyramid in Bosnia. But when the town loony raves about aliens landing in his back yard, you don't call NASA to disprove him.

European pyramid

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why Europe is, even today, a world leader in pyramids. You can outsource all the pyramid building you want to the israelites, but when you employ cheap slave labor, you get 1/3 less cubits.

U send me pyramid 4 ur outsourced job plz.

Despite all the skepticism...

[TheNoxx]

And everyone pointing to the archaeology organization site naming him as a nutjob, guess what folks? It won't be debunked until they've fully excavated the site. Whether or not the man in charge is crazy or not has little bearing on the validity of his claims, particularly when the evidence would be a gigantic fucking pyramid. There isn't anything to debate, it's either there or not.

Also, I'd say that a majority of the archaelogical society hates new findings that contradict their old theories, and can often go out of their way to ostracize and decredit people that publish or support findings that would invalidate all the time spent writing papers on any particularly well-accepted idea.

Not Slaves

[neoshroom]

Actually, a lot of recent evidence suggests that the pyramids where not built by slaves, but rather by paid workers. See below:

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070391.htm l

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