2008, archaeology versus pseudo-archaeology
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Of transparency and scientific integrity
Mr. Osmanagic’s "Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun" Foundation claims that its work is "transparent" (en) (see also its statutes (bs)). One particularly notable example of this "transparency" and scientific integrity is that of the report by the archaeologist Andrew Lawler. I have (...)
Tunnels, fossilized wood and radiocarbon dating
So, the great "international scientific conference" (en) that Mr. Osmanagic organized in Sarajevo has come to an end; the Chinese archaeologists talked about the Chinese pyramids, the Egyptian archaeologists talked about the Egyptian pyramids... and Mr. Osmanagic’s associates gave their usual (...)
One more, one less...
One more
Mr. Osmanagic definitely has no luck with the archaeologists. He could not obtain, from the few Egyptian archaeologists and egyptologists he managed to invite to his "international scientific conference" (en), more than a few vague conclusions (en) saying that it is necessary to (...)
Some thoughts about Dr. Nabil Swelim’s report
After Dr. Barakat’s report in November 2007, a second report from Egypt about the "Bosnian pyramids" was published in March 2008 by the team of Mr. Osmanagic’s Foundation. This one is Dr. Nabil Swelim’s report (en), written in February 2008 following his visit to Bosnia from the 30th August to the (...)
"What happened to the objective and unbiased journalism?"
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OBJECTIVE AND UNBIASED JOURNALISM?" was the title of an article published on Mr. Osmanagic’s Foundation website (en) in December 2007. It was an attack on the journalist Vuk Bacanovic, of the magazine BHDani (bs), following the publication of articles disclosing various (...)
Beneath contempt
Beneath contempt: what other way is there of describing the events of the last few days at Visoko? As can be seen here, during the night of 6th-7th of August, the excavations of the mediaeval fortress of Visoki, at the top of the hill of Visocica, which Mr. Osmanagic persists in describing as (...)
The fortress that just wouldn’t go away…
«There’s nothing up there at all! Not so much as one stone on top of another! When the Turks burned it to the ground 500 years ago, they left nothing standing.»
These were the words that, whilst giving a presentation about the “pyramids” of Visoko at the end of the summer of 2006, Mr. Semir (...)
In which the "proto-Bosnian" alphabet is mentioned again
Readers will perhaps recall that one of the most outlandish claims of Semir Osmanagic’s Foundation was the discovery of certain symbols in the Ravne Tunnel, three kilometres from the Pyramid of the Sun. Muris Osmanagic, their "finder", considers them to be a proto-Bosnian alphabet, "the ancestor (...)
Wednesday 13 February 2008
by irna
by irna
Frauds, myths and mysteries: Feder on "Bosnian pyramids"
Extracts from Kenneth L. Feder’s book, "Frauds, myths and mysteries - Science and Pseudoscience in Archeology", sixth edition, pages 276-278.
Pyramids in Bosnia?
The charismatic archaeologist, expedition leader, project director, fund-raiser, and author, Semir Osmanagic (in his day job, he’s a (...)
Brick-a-brac...
In lack of "scientific reports", quite rare these last months (and that’s not surprising, see here), and in lack of new "discoveries", the Foundation website doesn’t offer these days, beside some promotional material about Mr. Osmanagic’s presentations, more than a few revivals of old photographs: (...)
In search of the lost reports
This was the title of an article published on the 11th of January 2008, in the Bosnian magazine BHDani, by Vuk Bacanovic. It seems that the magazine was sent some interesting documents, ones that Mr. Osmanagic would probably have preferred never to be made public. Below appears a translation (...)
Thursday 24 January 2008
by irna
by irna
A correspondence with Dr. Barakat
About a month after the publication of this article (en) on my website, containing a few comments about Dr. Aly Barakat’s report, I received a mail from the Egyptian geologist. Following this first contact ensued an interesting correspondence that I publish here, of course with Dr. Barakat’s (...)
