BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: An Egyptian geologist says that a hill in central Bosnia appears to be a primitive man-made pyramid of uncertain age

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  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: An Egyptian geologist says that a hill in central Bosnia appears to be a primitive man-made pyramid of uncertain age
  • Date: 19th May 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) EGYPTIAN GEOLOGIST ALY ABD BARAKAT, SAYING: "It's difficult for the nature to create this type of rock and to repeat it in the same orientation for the whole area. It's difficult, it doesn't accept." (SOUNDBITE) (English) BOSNIAN-BORN AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST, SEMIR OSMANAGIC, SAYING: "And you can clearly see the flat surface, the ninety degrees angle, flat side, the flat bottom side, the flat side, so obviously they are man-made." (SOUNDBITE) (English) EGYPTIAN GEOLOGIST ALY ABD BARAKAT SAYING: "Yes, it's artificial, an artificial structure, with pyramid-shape."
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  • Topics: History
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  • Story Text: An Egyptian geologist said on Wednesday (May 17) that a hill in central Bosnia appeared to be a primitive man-made pyramid of uncertain age.
    Geologist Aly Abd Barakat was sent by Egypt's government to join the local team researching what Bosnian-born amateur archaeologist Semir Osmanagic says are three 12,000-year-old pyramids -- the Bosnian Pyramids of Sun, Moon and Dragon.
    Barakat told reporters at the dig on the northeastern side of Visocica hill, where huge stone blocks have been found that it was his opinion that it is probably a primitive pyramid.
    "It's difficult for the nature to create this type of rock and to repeat it in the same orientation for the whole area. It's difficult, it doesn't accept," he said, pointing to compact polished blocks. "It's artificial, an artificial structure, with pyramid-shape."
    He added that sand layers between the blocks were the same type of artificial cement used in ancient Egyptian pyramids.
    Barakat said detailed study was needed to determine the age of the excavated blocks and the type of the material used, and said more Egyptian archaeologists would join the team in Bosnia.
    "We had a pyramid wall here," said Osmanagic, as he showed reporters around the site.
    "As you can see, here we have, according to doctor Barakat from Egypt, concrete which was poured here. It's material of different stone materials, about five to six different stones. On the top of it was a layer of the same material but the fine granulation. It was on the top, it was polished in the ancient time so when the sun would shine it would reflect the light, tens of kilometres around."
    Osmanagic's theory about pyramids in Bosnia has been denounced by local and European archaeologists, who say that ancient civilizations in Europe lived in caves and could not build such structures.
    But the U.S.-based researcher has invited sceptics to come to Bosnia.
    Osmanagic has announced the existence of two more pyramid-shaped objects in the Visoko valley, some 30 km (18 miles) north of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.
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