The last part of the Osmanagic’s team is what I would call the "family circle": people which place in the project seems to depend on their familial or friendly relations with Mr. Osmanagic.
First among these people, one can find Muris Osmanagic, Semir’s father. Even if he is not mentioned among the official members of the Foundation, Mr. Osmanagic Senior, Mining Ingineer, professor in Tuzla University, former director of a mining complex and politician (bs) (he was Secretary for Industry, Energy and Trade in the former Republic of Bosnia), regular attendant to international conferences, (...)

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However, along with the "ghost scientists" (en), there are in Mr. Osmanagic’s team as listed on the Foundation website some "real" scientists known by Google. Mr. Stjepan Coric is really a geologist from the Paleontology Institute in Vienna University, Mr. Ramo Kurtanovic is a member of Tuzla University (and seems to be working also in the University of Zenica in 2007), as well as Mr. Elvir Babajic and Ms. Zehra Salkic, Mr. Mehmed Burgic is a member of the Faculty of Metallurgy in the University of Zenica. It appears that, at least for geology, Mr. Osmanagic can rely on a competent team; (...)

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If one now takes an interest in the local members of the "scientific team", one will soon discover that Google, as well as Google Scholar, have a strong prejudice against the scientists from the Balkans, and refuses to give any results about their works or academic titles. Of course, Google does not explore the entire Web, and it can be admitted that works in Bosnian, made in a small Bosnian university, cannot obtain an international reputation. But there still are, in this team, some names for which one cannot find any link to any university, any reference whatsoever - excepting of (...)

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According to the Foundation website, and the daily news given by the Foundation, Mr. Osmanagic has been able to gather, for the excavations of the "pyramid of the Sun", an important team, both qualified and international. The composition of this team was given on the Foundation website (a mention of these "committees" can be found in a press release from 2005 December (bs)). The organisation of the team seemed very serious, with committees and sub-committees. What is more, the Foundation news mention from time to time the planned arrival or participation of scientists coming from the (...)

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Mr. Semir Osmanagic, born in 1960 in Bosnia, and living in the United States (Houston, Texas), presented as an archaeologist (en) in the first news, is in fact a businessman. According to the article about him in Wikipedia (en), he is the owner of the Met Company (en) in Houston.
In Sarajevo he studied political and economic science (see this "profile" of Mr. Osmanagic (en) on the website bosnianpyramid.com). He readily introduces himself as "searcher" (see this interview (en)), expert in the study of pyramids and "enigmas of the past".
He is the author of a "thesis" (called "doctoral (...)

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Why should one take an interest in Mr. Osmanagic’s personality, or in the personality of the members of the team mustered by the "Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation"? The pyramid supporters usually reject the questions pertaining to Mr. Osmanagic’s, or his collaborators’, qualifications, saying they are ad hominem arguments, and they demand that the "discoveries" be valued independently of the discoverer’s personality (see for instance this post (en) on the forum bosnian-pyramid.com).
However, I think that, in this affair, obtaining precise informations about the pyramid team is very (...)

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