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Le mystère de la pyramide bosniaque
JOHN BOHANNON
Le Figaro, Paris, le 30 septembre 2006
Un amateur prétend avoir découvert au nord de Sarajevo un édifice pyramidal haut de 360 mètres et vieux de 12 000 ans. Une affirmation contestée qui soulève l'enthousiasme en Bosnie.
CELA aurait dû être un grand jour pour l'archéologie des Balkans. Pour la première fois depuis la fin de la guerre en Bosnie des experts venus de tout le pays avaient décidé de se rencontrer au Musée national à Sarajevo. Des équipes de télévision patientaient à l'extérieur pour faire des interviews. Des scientifiques étrangers étaient aussi présents, dont Anthony Harding de l'université d'Exeter au Royaume-Uni, président de l'Association européenne des archéologues. Mais ils furent profondément frustrés. Les journalistes ne s'intéressèrent ni aux projets de relance des collaborations internationales ou de l'enseignement universitaire ni à la préservation des biens archéologiques. « Ils n'ont voulu entendre qu'une chose, dit Zilka Kujundzic-Vejzagic, la spécialiste en archéologie préhistorique du musée qui avait organisé la rencontre : les pyramides, les pyramides, les pyramides ». Les pyramides en question sont à 30 km au nord-ouest de Sarajevo, près de la ville de Visoko. Un homme d'affaires bosniaque, Semir Osmanagic, directeur d'une entreprise dans le bâtiment à Houston aux États-Unis, a annoncé l'an passé qu'une colline haute de 360 mètres dominant la localité était en fait une pyramide construite il y a 12 000 ans par une civilisation inconnue. Il l'a baptisée la « pyramide du Soleil ». Avec l'aide de volontaires, Osmanagic a mis au jour sur la colline des blocs de pierre et un système de tunnels qui sont selon lui comme ceux des pyramides d'Égypte. Puis il a déclaré que deux talus voisins faisaient aussi partie du même « complexe pyramidal ».
Une analyse que ne partage aucun archéologue ou géologue parmi la demi-douzaine qui a visité le site. L'histoire est simple pour Stjepan Coric, un géologue bosniaque de l'université de Vienne en Autriche initialement invité par Osmanagic à examiner la colline. Les blocs de rocher ne sont que les fragments d'un type de sédiments appelé brèche qui formait le fond d'un lac il y a 7 millions d'années et a été ensuite soulevé par des forces naturelles pour lui donner sa forme angulaire. Pour les tunnels, « s'ils ont été faits par l'homme, dit-il, sans connaître leur âge, on peut supposer qu'ils faisaient partie d'une ancienne mine ». Pour Anthony Harding, « c'est juste une colline ».
Les dégâts de la guerreAvant le début de la guerre en 1992, Sarajevo était vraiment un centre d'excellence en archéologie estime Harding. Après quatre années de bombardements incessants, « nous avons presque tout perdu », déplore Zilka Kujundzic-Vejzagic qui a fui en Croatie après une année de conflit. Les sites archéologiques ont été utilisés comme retranchements au cours des combats acharnés et les fenêtres brisées du musée ont laissé celui-ci ouvert à l'hiver et aux animaux. « Dix ans après, la communauté scientifique ne s'en est toujours pas remise, mais nous savons au moins ce que nous devons faire pour nous rétablir », ajoute Kujundzic-Vejzagic en poste à Sarajevo depuis 1998. La première priorité est d'évaluer et de protéger les richesses archéologiques en danger dans le pays, maintenant appelé Bosnie-Herzégovine.
Ce territoire, de la taille de la Suisse, a toujours été occupé depuis la dernière glaciation et même au-delà. On en sait peu sur les premières tribus slaves qui sont arrivées là il y a 1 500 ans précise Kujundzic-Vejzagic. On en sait encore moins sur le peuple qui les a précédées, les Illyriens qui ont dominé la région entre 1 300 avant notre ère et l'arrivée des Romains. La connaissance de leurs relations avec les cultures voisines, notamment celle des Grecs, nous éclairerait sur les révolutions qui ont bouleversé les âges du bronze et du fer en Europe. « Tous ces sites et ces tombeaux attendent d'être étudiés, reprend l'archéologue, bien que nous ferions mieux de tout laisser en place jusqu'à ce que nous ayons les moyens de les protéger des intempéries et des pillards ».
Lors de l'ascension de la colline près de Visoko, on peut voir des rochers mis à nu que les guides locaux désignent comme « des parties de la pyramide du Soleil ». Les deux autres petits reliefs sont « la pyramide du Dragon et celle de la Lune », noms trouvés par Osmanagic lui-même. Celui-ci est persuadé de l'existence de pyramides enfouies, au vu de la forme et de la position des collines. Il est épris des pyramides et dit qu'il en a étudié des centaines de par le monde, notamment celles des Mayas, qui ont été construites selon lui par une technique « vibratoire » héritée des civilisations perdues de l'Atlantide et de la Lémurie...
Soutien des politiquesAmer Smailbegovic, un géophysicien qui dirige une société d'observation de la Terre et enseigne à l'université de Sarajevo dit qu'Osmanagic n'a pas pris la peine de regarder leur rapport basé sur des images par satellite. Celui-ci concluait à l'origine naturelle du relief et qu'un travail archéologique méticuleux devait être effectué pour déterminer une éventuelle intervention humaine. « Après le passage d'Osmanagic, s'alarme un archéologue désireux de garder l'anonymat pour ne pas perdre la possibilité de travailler dans le pays, nous ne saurons peut-être jamais ce qu'il y avait vraiment ici. Le matériel archéologique est entre la surface et la roche sous-jacente, mais pour un chasseur de pyramides, ce ne sont que des gravats à déblayer ». Osmanagic dit qu'il en est conscient et qu'il publiera ses résultats dans une revue à comité de lecture en novembre. « Mais l'approbation d'une élite scientifique ne m'intéresse pas, dit-il. Ce projet est pour le peuple. »
Malgré les protestations du milieu académique, Osmanagic semble être de plus en plus soutenu par le public et les politiques. Le gouvernement lui a donné toutes les autorisations nécessaires et l'a même aidé à financer ses excavations.
« Il est choquant de voir que l'argent public va à Osmanagic au lieu d'aller aux archéologues », remarque Johannes Müller, un archéologue allemand qui a effectué des fouilles dans la région. Osmanagic réplique que seulement 10 % du budget actuel, qui s'élève dit-il à 300 000 dollars, vient du gouvernement, le reste provenant de fonds privés. Un expert indique qu'il est facile de comprendre pourquoi les gens à la recherche d'une identité nationale suivent le phénomène Visoko. « Les lubies de pyramides d'Osmanagic sont exactement ce que la majorité des Bosniaques veut entendre », explique un sociologue du pays qui désire garder l'anonymat. Il y a aussi des motivations économiques. Osmanagic a annoncé en août qu'il projetait de faire construire trois parcs archéologiques en Bosnie-Herzégovine qui « récriront l'histoire mondiale » en dévoilant de nouveaux éléments de la « supercivilisation » préhistorique en Bosnie. De nouvelles routes et des hôtels sont prévus. Une chose paraît claire : certains vont profiter de la recherche d'une civilisation préhistorique en Bosnie, mais ce ne seront probablement pas les archéologues.
Cet article est paru dans la revue internationale Science, éditée par l'Association américaine pour l'avancement des sciences (AAAS). Traduction et adaptation de Pierre Kaldy pour Le Figaro.
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Come see the pyramids... in Bosnia?
Still recovering from civil war, the European nation lures tourists with skiing,
'siege tours,' and land formations of dubious heritage
By Colin Woodard
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the March 29, 2007 edition
VISOKO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Until recently, residents of this central Bosnian town never gave Visocica hill much thought.
Roughly pyramid-shaped and covered in woods, Visocica loomed 720 feet above the town. Occasionally, tourists or picnic parties would drive up the track on the back side to take in the scenery or to poke about the ruins of the medieval castle on its summit. Most of the time it was left to the sheep.
But over the past year and a half, this sleepy town of 12,000 has become one of Bosnia's busiest tourist destinations, with thousands of daily visitors coming in summer to see what is purported to be the world's largest pyramid. Four more purported pyramids are scattered around Visoko, disguised as hills.
Foreign geological experts who have visited the site report that it is a natural hill, and Bosnia's archaeological community has condemned ongoing digs here as a waste of the nation's limited resources and a threat to real sites. But for many Bosnians, it's a tourism dream come true.
"It's a big affirmation for the town, because everyone hears the name Visoko," says Mayor Munib Alibegovic. "Suddenly we have economic movement and lots of tourists coming here."
Twelve years after the end of the 1992-95 war, Bosnia's tourism industry is slowly coming back to life, and not only in Visoko. Sarajevo and Mostar have become popular summer side trips for the throngs of Italian, French, and German tourists who spend their holidays on Croatia's Adriatic coast. Serbs, Croats, and Montenegrins crowd the slopes of the country's ski resorts.
In the Croat-Bosniak Federation (one of the country's two states within a state), hotel stays by foreign tourists have increased by 69 percent since 2003. The other half of the country, Republika Srpska, has seen more modest growth, in part because it suffered less physical damage during the war and, thus, began attracting visitors earlier, many of them from neighboring Serbia.
"For a long time after the war we had humanitarian workers and consultants, but now it's mostly tourists," says Valida Vilic, who runs the Halvat Guesthouse in the oldest part of Sarajevo, called Bascarsija, whose Ottoman-era mosques, squares, and market hall are popular with visitors. "Unfortunately, they don't stay long: usually just a day or two."
Bosnia's leaders hope that tourism will bring jobs to this war-ravaged country, where the official unemployment rate exceeds 40 percent. An advertising campaign on CNN International urges viewers to "Enjoy Bosnia and Herzegovina," while glossy new brochures from the national tourist board invite people to visit the historic towns and untrammeled nature in the "Heart Shaped Land."
"Tourism can be the key to transforming Bosnia and Herzegovina," the senior international official here, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote in a Sarajevo newspaper editorial recently. But he warned that a great deal needed to be done before the country will "evolve into the tourist paradise portrayed in the CNN advertisements."
Central strategy for tourists is lacking
As with most things in Bosnia, there is no national strategy for tourism, but rather 11 of them: one for Republika Srpska and one for each of the Croat-Bosniak Feder-ation's 10 cantons. There is little trust among the country's Serb, Croat, and Bosniak (or "Bosnian Muslim") politicians, complicating efforts to create a national strategy for tourism promotion, planning, and infrastructure improvements.
"There is no tourism strategy, and nobody communicates with anybody else," says Tim Clancy, a cofounder of Green Visions, a Sarajevo-based nonprofit that promotes and provides sustainable tourism programs. "This is not a masstourism destination like Croatia, so we need to focus on quality, not quantity. We need to protect and attract people to this natural wonderland."
Bosnia also has an image problem, as it is still widely associated with ethnic cleansing, atrocities against civilians, and the siege of Sarajevo. While Sarajevo and other cities have been largely repaired and rebuilt, war-damaged buildings are still a common sight, as are red skull-and-crossbones signs warning of the presence of mine fields.
Many Western tourists visiting Bosnia come because of the war, notes guide Zijad Jusufovic, whose "Mission: Impossible" tour of Sarajevo's wartime sites is by far and away the most popular of his excursions. "I started with historic walking tours of the city, but more and more people kept asking about the war and the siege," he says.
"They are impressed with how close the fronts were to the city and how many mine fields exist," adds Mr. Jusufovic, who lived through the Bosnian Serbs' three-year siege of the city. "Usually, by the end, they understand that everybody lost in this conflict and why it's so difficult to just forgive and forget."
The country's most famous tourist symbol – an arched 16th-century bridge in Mostar – was destroyed by Bosnian Croats in 1993 but has since been rebuilt with international aid. The Bjelasnica ski resort, site of the women's downhill competition in the 1984 Winter Olympics, has also been rebuilt, though skiers are cautioned not to wander into the woods on account of mines.
Concerns about archaeological dig
Visoko's "pyramids" drew as many as 5,000 people a day last summer, including many foreigners, according to their purported discoverer, Semir Osmanagic, a Bosnian-born amateur historian and metal shop owner in Houston. The digs at the alleged pyramids – which Mr. Osmanagic claims are larger and older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt – have upset many academics, not least because of fears they may damage Neolithic, Roman, and medieval sites scattered through the valley.
"People have offered to pay me to take them to Visoko, but I refuse to go," says Jusufovic. "I'm trying to be a serious tour guide. I intend to talk about facts and dates and history, but the pyramids are another thing altogether."
Others fear the country may squander some of its most valuable assets – wild rivers, pristine lakes, and breathtaking mountain scenery – in the rush to exploit its natural resources. The Croat-Bosniak Federation government is building five new hydroelectric dams, which threaten to flood the spectacular Neretva Canyon and a 15th-century monastery.
"Bosnia-Herzegovina already has extra energy, but the EU is drooling over the chance to get power without damning its own rivers," says Mr. Clancy, whose group opposes the project. "It would be unbelievably unwise if these dams are built without considering future effects on the environment and ecotourism."
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The Academician, the pyramids and the Moon
by Irna
Monday 19 November 2007
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 and in Bosnian). Three months later, on the 16th of November, the Foundation website claims 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 in Oslo in August 2008. The Foundation article offers a short text in Russian, that seems to be the abstract of the Russian geophysicists’ lecture for this Congress. Is it really, at last, the "scientific validation", often claimed but never made, of Mr. Osmanagic’s hypothesis? Without prejudging the content of Pr. Khavroshkin’s presentation during the Congress, one may still doubt it...
Read the complete article here: http://irna.lautre.net/The-Academician-the-pyramids-and.html
Vous pouvez lire ce texte en français ici: http://irna.lautre.net/L-Academicien-les-pyramides-et-la.html
See also / Voyez aussi: http://irna.lautre.net/-Pyramides-de-Bosnie-.html
(Source: Le site d'Irna - http://irna.lautre.net/) |
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Bosnia & Herzegovina: Exploring the Pyramid
by Ljubisa Bojic
GLOBAL VOICES
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
It's been over a year since the whole Bosnian pyramid media fuss started. Still, many talk about the possible discovery of Europe’s first step pyramid complex. The event is significant for Bosnia & Herzegovina's recovery, as it brings positive media attention and money into this poor and wounded country. Some disagree that the pyramid exploration followed by unique Balkan patriotism could be positive. After the findings proving that the structures below the hills had been made by humans, this part of the globe received additional media attention. Just 30 kilometers northwest of the capital city Sarajevo, in Visoko area, an archeological park has been set up. Founder of the whole undertaking, Semir Osmanagic, says the pyramid is at least 2,500 years old and may even date to the last ice age.
Sean Markey of the National Geographic began his report by saying this about Osmanagic:
"He's been called a Balkan Indiana Jones. Others label him a dreamer, or worse, a pyramid buff with loony ideas."
Genijalci narrate the beginning of the story that shook the whole Bosnia (BIH):
"Long time ago people at Visoko built the pyramids. The pyramid of the Sun is located at Visocica hill while the pyramid of the Moon is placed below Plesevica hill and the third pyramide of Bosnian Dragon is on the right side. Research aiming to prove the theory is being carried out at the moment. […] Detailed examination started on April 14, 2006. In April 2005, Semir Osmanagic, a US-based [businessman] and explorer paid a visit to the Visoko museum. Professor Senad Hodovic explained everything concerning the medieval Bosnia. He told him about the rocky remains of the old Visoko town and the legend about the three thrones of kings; the hill has a rare pyramidal shape which is an atypical phenomenon. Semir Osmanagic got interested in the affair. As an explorer, Osmanagic visited many locations throughout the world with similar sets of pyramids. He then acquired a license to conduct drills. He saw numerous anomalies pointing there might be a pyramid below the surface of the hill."
On the other side, Jahuthinks the story is yet another fraud presented to the public (BIH):
"[…] Those “pyramid people” are skillfully serving us a huge dose of patriotism. The beleif in a factless thesis is ofthen connected to the struggle for better tomorrow of the country. A common person understands that the combination of blind fate, sci fi ideas, stupid lies and patriotism is more than harmful. Osmanagic and his crew don't think about possible consequences to our pockets […], peace and reputation of the state. It comes to “green patriotism” and putting up shows with businessmen, majors and other officials who visit. All these won't bring good, it just makes [confusion] faster. There is only the question of when the pyramidal vehicle will hit the concrete wall of deception [firstly intended to establish social peace in the country][…]."
Kami favors the effort (BIH):
"[…] The fourth day of the world’s greatest geo-archeological exploration has been completed. Exciting news is coming from the top of the Bosnian pyramid of the Sun. The scientific information is favoring the thesis, thus this will be a very special spring and summer time for our country and the world. Identical stone blocks have been found just one meter below the ground as the experts started their research by creating two wells at northeast side of the structure. The blocks were undoubtedly created by hands of human beings. […] This definitely throws down the assumption that the big rock was treated by people. It is absolutely clear, huge stones were carved in the first Bosnian quarry, transported to the location and built by men. […] All are invited to join this unique effort of history restoration."
MayaTitan of Mysterie World posts pictures and writes:
"Here I am going to present more details about hill Visocica and the other two that are considered to be pyramids. Last weekend our expedition went to Visoko to make more shots. It was sunny and [the] pictures are good. First, let me say that the excavation began yesterday. […] [Later that day at the press conference they presented] a lot of details, including […] reports of pyramidally-shaped hills. Those reports tell us that eroding is not like on other [similar] or vulcanic hills, THAT HAVE PYRAMIDAL SHAPE, too. There are cases in South America and England where hills of pyramidal shape [exist] but further evidence differs from what they got on Visocica hill. Besides those reports, computer graphics model of pyramid was presented. Each side of the pyramid (hill) is 365 meters long. This figure is weird because it is also the number of days in year. Enough said…"
Anonymous replies:
"365 isn't a strange number - it only comes out to that value if you measure it in meters. What number do you get if you measure it in feet? Cubits? Yards? Furlongs? See? There's nothing magic about 365. Besides the number of days in a year is more like 365.25…"
MayaTitan:
"It is magic because experts obtained similar results […] when they measured […] some pyramids in Mexico. They got 365. It doesn't matter whether it is a coincidence [or not] but other proofs show that those objects are not formed by nature."
Bosnian expatriate Amir plans to visit his country because of the exciting news. He writes a letter-like post at the blog dedicated to Banja Luka (BIH):
"[…] Regards to you, my best man. I am not sure if you are familiar with the pyramid situation, thus I am sending you a short insight, just because I don’t have anything clever to write about. […] I am getting ready to head towards the Visoko area in June, not sure about the date yet because I am awaiting response from my cousin Ajla who would like to join me. Sharing all the action with her would be neat. […] Everybody who wants to give us a hand is welcome. It's crazy down there in Visoko now as the place became the biggest archeological park globally. Many have passed through the town, including the CNN. As I write these passages, the scenes from the spot are rolling on my TV (a special CNN documentary). Radio Q broadcasts the program non–stop; the repetitor is set up at the peak of the Bosian pyramid of the Sun."
Co replies:
"It’s nice. I see many interested people allowing the business to flourish. Topics of our conversations switched from day-to-day issues to something else. Bosnia needs something like this even if it’s far from the truth."
Muris:
"Jon Stewart, host of popular fake news on comedy channel, dedicated few minutes last night to Bosnian pyramids […] …"
Nera:
"[…] I think this provides our youth with an opportunity to gather again from all parts of the world. Greetings to all young people taking part in the project."
Amir:
"[…] If it is a natural phenomenon we got to thank mother earth for the gift of having a hill with four equal sides [365 meters long] matching the cosmic north […]. And the tunnels leading deep below earth… The same pyramid makes up a triangle together with two other. […] The pyramid is there, whether artificial or genuine, it's there just [steps away]. Semir might be as they call him “an amateur”, but he is the only individual [from Bosnia & Herzegovina] to visit all the Latin American pyramids, and much more. Thus [Semir] is the greatest pyramid expert we have got in the country. Although an “amateur” he knows much more about [the great ancient constructions] than any of our archeologists. His hard work is exposed as the pyramid is being revealed. Therefore [all the theory experts] got terrified of losing current position. […] We would be lucky to have more [rookie] experts ready to tackle the issues [in a real way]. The citizens haven’t obtained any benefit from the so-called experts. […]"
Co:
"[…] This is great, especially for Bosnia youngsters. As I can notice, the working actions are conducted again there, like during the [good old] times [of socialism]. Young people are jobless either way, so the event gives them an opportunity to relax, socialize and forget the usual daily troubles. […] Abdullah Berekat, doctor of geology and one of the leading experts on Egyptian pyramids, verified yesterday that the stone blocks found on sides of Visocica hill weren’t laid out by the [forces] of nature but by the hands of humans […] Bekret needed just one day only to announce the stone objects were handmade. He also proclaimed the additives used to connect the stone blocks match those used on the Egyptian pyramids. [...]"
Some bloggers joke. Raka says:
"[…] An authentic witness appeared [this day]. Mr. [Abdullah] owns the records made during Cheops pyramid research; it was written that the Pharaoh mummy was wearing a trendy leather jacked with a label attached: 'Visoko leather industry from Visoko.' […]"
Rako:
"[…] Not so long ago, two mummies got out of the pyramid at Visoko to spontaneously look out around the town. One mummy asks another: “Do you understand whether time goes forwards or backwards here?”
Tai says:
"[…] 'Once upon a time, there were two brothers Ramzes and Ramzo. Ramzes went to Egypt, and Ramzo stayed in Visoko.'"
At Zenica city news blog, Adan Dzonlic quotes Semir Osmanagic's response to the accusations made by professor of history from a nearby university. Among other things, Semir states (BIH):
"[…] In the meantime, those who don’t want to climb the walls of the pyramid will be able sit and [and chill down in one of the coffee shops] at Duboko downtown and view the northern and eastern parts of the pyramid's walls as early as June this year. The Pyramide will keep on with positive aura creating waves of reality-based optimism affecting the planet with affirmative news concerning [Bosnia & Herzegovina] […]."
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(http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/26/bosnia-herzegovina-exploring-the-pyramid/) |
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Pyramides de Bosnie
Dzana de Bosnie - Carnets d'une Bosniaque
Jeudi 6 septembre 2007
J'aimerais revenir sur une affaire qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre l'année dernière, et qui continue d'en faire couler encore beaucoup aujourd'hui en Bosnie-Herzégovine et même un peu partout dans le monde, si on en juge au grand nombre de forums anglophones consacrés au sujet : le mystère des pyramides de Bosnie. Quand j'ai eu vent de cette "découverte" j'étais très enthousiaste, je me disais : Enfin ! On va parler de la Bosnie pour dire autre chose que "c'est la crise" ou "tout va mal". Hélas, l'affaire a vite tourné à la polémique, et la "pyramide bosniaque du Soleil" s'est avérée ne pas être aussi lumineuse que cela...
Revenons sur les faits. Fin 2005, le Bosniaque Semir Osmanagic, archéologue amateur passionné et spécialiste des pyramides du monde entier (du moins c'est ainsi qu'il se présente) s'arrête devant une colline dont les formes lui paraissent étrangement géométriques et peu naturelles. Nous sommes tout près de Visoko, bourgade au Nord-Ouest de Sarajevo. Cette colline semble posséder deux faces parfaitement plates et formant un angle droit, comme on peut le constater sur les photographies un peu plus bas sur cette page. Semir Osmanagic réunit alors une petite équipe d'archéologues, amateurs pour la plupart, et entreprend de creuser le sol aux alentours de Vicocica. Il y découvre alors de grandes plaques de grès qui là encore lui paraissent peu naturelles, puisque ces plaques sont immenses et très plates. Pour lui, à n'en pas douter, ce sont des "dalles" de fabrication humaine, preuve de l'existence d'une civilisation humaine très éloignée dans le temps. Puis il "découvre" une seconde pyramide et rebaptise la région "Vallée des pyramides", auxquelles il attribue les jolis noms de "pyramide bosniaque du Soleil" et "pyramide bosniaque de la Lune". Plus tard viendra la "pyramide bosniaque de la Terre". Il met ensuite à jour des pierres aux détails et aux formes étrangement esthétiques, preuve encore selon lui d'une civilisation humaine. Les gens du pays lui parlent ensuite d'un tunnel traversant le sol sur plusieurs centaines de mètres. Hélas, un spéléologue entreprend d'étudier le tunnel : celui-ci est comblé, et rien ne prouve qu'il aboutisse dans une antique chambre funéraire. Puis un autre homme, Senad Hodovic, conservateur du musée de Visoko, vient appuyer les hypothèses en précisant que la ville avait été autrefois une cité médiévale relativement importante. On mène alors des investigations dans la région, et on découvre - ou redécouvre - d'étranges roches étonnamment sphériques...
Continuez à lire sur le site de Dzana: http://www.dzana.net/47-pyramides-bosnie.html |
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Pyramid in Bosnia? Some scientists think so
By Amel Emric, Associated Press Writer
Kare11.com, Minneapolis
August 2008
Researchers on Wednesday unearthed geometrically cut stone slabs that they said could form part of the sloping surface of what they believe is an ancient pyramid lying beneath a huge hill.
Archaeologists and other experts began digging at this central Bosnian town last week to explore the team leader's theory that the 2,120-foot hill covers a step pyramid, which would be the first ever found in Europe.
"These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid," Semir Osmanagic, a Bosnian archaeologist who studied the pyramids of Latin America for 15 years, said of the stonework found Wednesday.
"We can see the surface is perfectly flat. This is the crucial material proof that we are talking pyramids," he said.
Osmanagic believes the structure will prove to be 722 feet high, or a third taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.
The huge stone blocks discovered Wednesday appeared to be cut in cubes and polished.
"It is so obvious that the top of the blocks, the surface is man-made," Osmanagic said.
Earlier research on the hill, known as Visocica, found that it has 45-degree slopes pointing toward the cardinal points and a flat top. Under layers of dirt, workers discovered a paved entrance plateau, entrances to tunnels and large stone blocks.
Satellite photographs and thermal imaging revealed two other, smaller pyramid-shaped hills in the Visoko Valley.
Last week's excavations began with a team of rescue workers from a nearby coal mine being sent into a tunnel believed to be part of an underground network connecting the three pyramid-shaped hills.
They were followed by archeologists, geologists and other experts who emerged from the tunnel later to declare that it was certainly man-made.
The work at Visoko, about 20 miles northwest of Sarajevo, will continue for about six months. Two experts from Egypt are due to join the team in mid-May.
"It will be a very exciting archaeological spring and summer," Osmanagic said.
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Una piràmide a Bòsnia? / ¿Una pirámide en Bosnia?
