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The Secret of the Pyramid

Irna — 2014-10-19T18:44:54Z

An interesting anecdote about the hotel Piramida Sunca in Visoko and its landlord, Dario Pekic: both of whom owe a great deal to Semir Osmanagic and his Foundation - of which Mr. Pekic is, besides, a member. The hotel is not only named after Osmanagic's project (Pyramid of the Sun Hotel), but also derives substantial benefits from it: volunteers for the Summer Camps are required to stay there (see page 6), and various seminars devoted to the "pyramids" are also held there.
In spite of (…)

- Around the pyramids: the Bosnian context

An initiative to raise awareness about the crisis of Bosnian cultural institutions

Irna — 2013-02-26T22:18:19Z

Just over four months ago, in October 2012, the Sarajevo Zemaljski Museum, along with half a dozen other Bosnian cultural institutions (the Museum of Modern Art, the National Library, the Cinematheque ...) closed its doors. The closure came after years of hardship (cuts in heating, collapse of part of the roof, a general lack of resources for the preservation of collections, unpaid salaries ...) a lack of sufficient funding, and an absence of political consensus amongst national institutions (…)

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Help save Vjetrenica

Irna — 2008-08-27T22:55:57Z

Several speleologists and scientists from Bosnia and Herzegovina have sent, a few weeks ago, a public petition to protect Vjetrenica; their text can be found here in English, and there in Bosnian.
Vjetrenica is a wonderful cave in the Popovo Polje, a karstic polje in the South of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It's quite a large cave: more than 6000 meters have been explored, with several subterranean lakes (one is 180 meters long); and it has been known since Antiquity (Pliny the Elder (…)

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Any resemblance to existing persons...

Irna — 2008-02-26T23:54:35Z

Imagine: in place of Bosnia, you have Peru; in place of a pyramid, you have a cyclopean fortress; in place of mythical Atlanteans, a legendary Inca hero; in place of a Texan businessman, the mayor of a Peruvian town, owner of a touristic company...
So, the context is given, let's tell the tale. On the 10th of January 2008, the Peruvian offical News Agency, Andina, announces the discovery (en), on the 29th of December of the previous year, of a gigantic fortress called Manco Pata, covering (…)

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The Galileo Gambit

Irna — 2008-02-07T02:02:15Z

The supporters of parasciences consider the debate as the struggle of open, revolutionary minds, against the censorship of an omnipotent and sclerosed institution, which tries to suppress the truth in order to ensure the perenniality of its domination. This schematization, that will be called here "appeal to Galileo", is founded upon the drawing of a parallel between the present controversy about parasciences and Galileo's trial - or rather the myth it generated.
Marianne Doury « Le débat (…)

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"Pyramids" shaped by Romans?

Irna — 2007-08-29T17:35:17Z

There is a new update (April 30th, 2011) about Dr Omerbashich, here in French, and here in English.
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 (…)

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How the Bosnian scientific institutions see Mr. Osmanagic's project - part 2 (and end?)

Irna — 2007-05-25T01:37:46Z

I have described a few days ago in this article some official documents published on geolog-mrak (bs)'s blog. It appears that Mr. Osmanagic's Foundation has asked from the Ministry of Culture an excavation permit (including for excavations in the protected area on Visocica, see here) as well as some subsidies; and that the Minister, Mr. Gavrilo Grahovac, has, before answering, contacted various Bosnian scientific institutions in order to get their opinion on Mr. Osmanagic's project. (…)

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How the Bosnian scientific institutions see Mr. Osmanagic's project

Irna — 2007-05-16T02:03:00Z

The reader probably remembers (see this article) that Mr. Osmanagic's Foundation appears to have this year - contrary to the year 2006 - some difficulties in obtaining the necessary excavation permits in order to pursue their project. It seems that the responsible federal authorities, that is the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Physical Planning, have this year decided to ask for the opinions of various scientific authorities about Mr. Osmanagic's projects. I have already mentioned (…)

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An open letter from the Bosnian scientific community

Irna — 2007-03-18T15:24:01Z

Sarajevo, March 14, 2007
Dear Mr. Schwarz-Schilling,
For more than a year now, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian and the international scientific community has been following the development of pseudoarchaeological trend and project of search for the alleged prehistoric pyramids near Visoko in Bosnia-Herzegovina in utter appalment. Particularly worrying are the support given to this project by a part of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian political establishment and the politicized rhetoric applied to (…)

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