Mr. Osmanagic’s Foundation had announced, at the end of July 2007, a visit to Visoko of Russian geophysicists, Professors Khavroshkin and Tsyplakov (news in English (en) and in Bosnian (bs)). Three months later, on the 16th of November, the Foundation website claims (bs) that "the Russian Academicians confirm the existence of the pyramids", and that they will, along with Semir Osmanagic himself, present their works during the 33th International Geological Congress (en) in Oslo in August 2008. The Foundation article offers a short text in Russian, that seems to be the abstract of the (...)

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Move like this, this, this
Little puppets, little puppets,
Move like this, this, this
Three little turns
And then they go away
Ainsi font, font, font
Les petites marionettes,
ainsi font, font, font,
Trois p’tits tours et puis s’en vont !
The three Egyptian archaeologists who came in Visoko on the 31st of August (see here (en)) are gone after having stayed two weeks. During this stay, they, particularly one of them, Dr. Nabil Swelim, the only one who speaks easily English, have given numerous earth-shattering statements: "Bosnia will be known as the Country of the Pyramids (...)

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A news from the 27th of August on Mr. Osmanagic’s Foundation Bosnian website recently catched my eye. Under the title "Isklesani lik na ploci", that is "Carved face on a slab (bs)", it presents this photograph:
along with the following text:
One of the visitors of the pyramid of the Moon sent us this photograph of the surface of one of the slabs on the terraces at the foot of the Pyramid west side. The strange undulating patterns on this pyramid and on the stone temple of Vratnica are the subject of numerous hypothesis: is it a matter of slabs cast on the spot, or of slabs sculpted in (...)

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After the mineralogist Aly Abd Barakat in June 2006, and the egyptologist Mohamed Ibrahim Aly in September 2006, a new group of Egyptian scientists arrived in Visoko to lend their help to Mr. Osmanagic. They are two archaeologists from Cairo Faculty of Archaeology, Dr. Soleiman Hamed El-Heweli and Dr. Mona Fouad Aly, and the third is a member of Alexandria Archaeological Society, Dr Nabil M.A. Swelim; along with these three archaeologists is an old acquaintance of ours, Dr. Barakat.
These four scientists arrived in Bosnia on Friday 31st of August (bs) ; on the same day, the Foundation (...)

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Bosnian "pyramids": hills shaped by Romans, that’s the title of a new blog, created in August 2007, dedicated to the "Bosnian pyramids" : http://omerbashich.blogspot.com/ (en). Not just another pro- or anti- pyramids blog : this one at the same time denounces Mr. Osmanagic’s "amateur digging" and hoaxes, and claims to offer an alternative theory to the existence of the "pyramids".
His author is a real scientist, trained in geophysics and geodesy, and specialized in gravimetric terrestrial spectroscopy, Dr Mensur Omerbashich. One can download his PhD thesis (en) or an interesting article (...)

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If you used to have sometimes a look on the various blogs of the "Anti-Pyramid Web Ring" in Bosnia, you may have noticed that their content has disappeared; instead there is a short post (bs), saying that "because of the pressures bearing on us and our families, and of the legal threats", their authors have decided to stop, at least temporarily, writing their blogs. One must think that these anonymous bloggers, who unwearyingly exposed Mr. Osmanagic’s and his team’s fakes and stupidities, have hit some sore points, and endangered the "greatest geo-archaeological project of the century", (...)

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Since the 2nd of July 2007, Mr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling is not anymore High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina; the new High Representative is a Slovakian diplomat, Mr. Miroslav Lajcak. However, it seems that Mr. Schwarz-Shilling did not remain long unemployed, as less than a week after his departure from the OHR he could be found acting as the showman for Mr. Semir Osmanagic and his Foundation...
One may remember that Mr. Schwarz-Schilling already made a much disputed visit (en) to the "Bosnian valley of pyramids" in August 2006; during this visit, he called Mr. Osmanagic a (...)

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Archaeology is not the only "alternative" science in Visoko, judging by one of the last articles published on Mr. Semir Osmanagic’s Foundation website. Indeed, a text dated 23th of May 2007 (bs) explains that M. Osmanagic held a presentation of the "scientific results" of his project before "more than 250 students, assistants and professors" who "filled up the great amphitheater" of Mostar University.
Unfortunately for the website credibility, the article is given with a series of photographs of the said amphitheater, that show evidently that the text author quite over-estimated the (...)

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Since Mr. Osmanagic made known his hypothesis about the "Bosnian Pyramids", almost two years ago, he has frequently been opposed by Bosnian scientists, archaeologists and geologists, supported by their European colleagues. These scientists have addressed various authorities (for instance a letter to UNESCO (en), or an open letter to Christian Schwarz-Schilling (en), High Representative in Bosnia), in order to warn them of the threats on the Bosnian heritage, and of the lack of scientific validity of Mr. Osmanagic’s thesis. In return, Mr. Osmanagic generally considers his opponents (...)

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The visitor passing on this web site may have read this text (en) published on the 1st of April, in which I announced the discovery, by Mr. Osmanagic and his team, of an extraordinary archaeological treasure of sculpted and engraved fishes that confirmed their most extravagant hypothesis about an ancient worlwide sea-borne civilization. I hope the visitor had at least a smile reading it; for myself I had much fun writing it, and it seems that the administrator of the forum bosnian-pyramid.com (en) found it funny enough to paste it on the forum (on which I am banned):
This has indeed (...)

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I received this morning some news that will, if confirmed, make me totally change my opinion about Visoko site and its interpretations by Mr. Osmanagic’s Foundation. The news, at the time when I’m writing, has still not been published on the Foundation website, but it was communicated to the people who signed in for the Foundation newsletter, so that I guess it will be published very soon. What is this news? It appears that a group of children from the village of Dautovci, West of Buci hill - the so-called "pyramid of the Dragon" -, have accidentally discovered, near the top of this hill, (...)

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Excellent news from Bosnia for the European archaeology: a team, led by Ms. Snjezana Vasilj, Professor of Archaeology in Sarajevo and Mostar Universities, has published the discovery of the first Illyrian boats ever found (en) in Hutovo Blato.
Hutovo Blato, located near Capljina, half-way between Mostar and the Adriatic Coast South of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a marshland in the Neretva valley, made a nature park (en) for the sake of its exceptional wetland fauna and flora (en) (it is particularly a known habitat for migrating swampbirds). The marshland is connected, by the Krupa river, (...)

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There is no limit to the credulity of those who want to believe...
One can find an evidence for this in the extraordinary story made up, not, for once, by Mr. Osmanagic and his fellows, but by a few enthousiastic "supporters" on some pro-pyramids websites or forums.
I have already mentioned here the famous "proto-Illyrian" script identified by Mr. Osmanagic Senior (en) on a "monolith" buried in Ravne tunnel, a script, according to his discoverer, made of "52 different symbols", but of which in fact only 4 or 5 are photographed and visible on the Foundation different documents. As far as I (...)

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In a news dated 2 March 2007 (en), the "Bosnian pyramid of the Sun" Foundation informs us that Mr. Osmanagic goes on with his world tour "in search of the lost civilizations" (this tour being intended for a "scientific" emission with that same title that will be broadcasted on the Bosnian federal TV). He is, during these first days of March, in Europe, and more precisely in Stonehenge, which has inspired him with some surprising thoughts, for instance that, if the "original builders are unknown", the area was inhabited by people as different as "Druids, Celts, and Romans" (what! you (...)

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