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Chasing the Dragon (Project)

Irna — 2011-07-22T02:38:00Z

Pseudo-festival, pseudo-awards …

Irna — 2011-05-08T19:21:47Z

The website of Professor Debertolis (it) of the ‘SB Research Group' (see here for information about this group) informs us that a film on the subject of the Visoko ‘pyramids' was recently screened (bs) in Sarajevo to an audience that included the director and Mr. Osmanagic. Not having seen this film, I cannot judge its content. However, I did notice one small and rather bizarre detail in the film's promotional material. In January 2011, it did indeed win an award, the ‘California Film (…)

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Dr. Semir Osmanagic, Fake Article Scandal

Irna — 2011-04-24T17:54:09Z

Audaciter calomniare semper aliquid haeret - Francis Bacon
The title above is a slightly adapted version of the title of an article published on the Osmanagic Foundation website, “Dr. Zahi Hawass, Fake Chamber Scandal”.
The article (copied and pasted from the original, located here), was intended to demonstrate that Zahi Hawass, the Head of Egyptian Antiquities, had faked the famous live broadcast of September 17, 2002, during which viewers had watched as the Pyramid Rover robot drilled (…)

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The Dentist and the Giant Mussel

Irna — 2011-03-06T02:36:00Z

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EU Times and the pyramids

Irna — 2010-11-01T00:14:16Z

More than one visitor to this site has drawn my attention to this article published by the online newspaper EU Times: Scientists confirm pyramids in Bosnia are oldest known pyramids in the world. Here is the text of the article:
Bosnian pyramids have been finally confirmed. Pyramid experts from all over the world have confirmed the existence of the Bosnian pyramids. In addition, 90% of all these experts said that the the Bosnian pyramids are by far the world's largest and oldest pyramids. (…)

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Of transparency and scientific integrity

Irna — 2008-10-11T18:28:15Z

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 succeeded in obtaining from the author (who left the Foundation, partly because of this same episode) the original of the report whose subject was the radiocarbon dating of a piece of fossil wood (…)

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Beneath contempt

Irna — 2008-08-14T01:24:01Z

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 highest pyramid in the world”, were subjected to criminal vandalism. It was the second such attack suffered by the fortress; during the Autumn of 2007, these vandals, or others of the same ilk, (…)

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Brick-a-brac...

Irna — 2008-02-10T23:13:40Z

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: "extracts from the photo documentation" or "details from the Bosnian valley of the pyramids". On this last page, however, appears a photograph that, as far as I know, has never before been (…)

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Nadija Nukic : "Osmanagic has driven away the scientists from the project"

Irna — 2007-12-09T17:06:26Z

Nadija Nukic is the name of the geologist who, at a time, was "coordinator of the Committee for Geology" (en) in Mr. Osmanagic's Foundation. She is the author of the reports on the probe holes and drillings made in 2005 at Semir Osmanagic's request, and she stayed in the Foundation as the team's chief geologist during the first half of 2006. Then she mysteriously disappeared from the Foundation news at the end of the summer 2006, at about the same time that Senad Hodovic, director of the (…)

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Three little turns and then they go away...

Irna — 2007-09-23T02:33:10Z

Move like this, this, this Little puppets, little puppets, Move like this, this, this Three little turns And then they go away
Ainsi font, font, font Les petites marionettes, ainsi font, font, font, Trois p'tits tours et puis s'en vont !
The three Egyptian archaeologists who came in Visoko on the 31st of August (see here) are gone after having stayed two weeks. During this stay, they, particularly one of them, Dr. Nabil Swelim, the only one who speaks easily English, have given numerous (…)

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