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Mishandling archaeoacoustics

Irna — 2013-08-27T02:49:00Z

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Carbon 14 dating - the next episode

Irna — 2011-06-11T00:11:24Z

A triumphal announcement (bs), has recently appeared on the Osmanagic Foundation website, since repeated and copied multiple times on sites belonging to supporters, on alternative forums and in the local press (bs): the Pyramid of the Moon was supposedly constructed over 10,000 years ago.
The reason for this announcement: a carbon-14 dating carried out by Professor Anna Pazdur, University of Technology in Gliwice in Poland (the same scientist who earlier produced a date for a piece of (…)

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Cover up that report, which I can't endure to look on...

Irna — 2011-03-14T23:32:16Z

Tartuffe (taking a handkerchief from his pocket) Ah! Before you speak, pray take this handkerchief.
Dorine What?
Tartuffe Cover up that bosom, which I can't Endure to look on.
Molière: Tartuffe, or the Impostor
Following the publication of his 2008 "report", Dr. Nabil Swelim doesn't seem to have been too much in evidence on the Foundation website. Judging from these comments, Dr. Swelim's report - on which the “pyramidomaniacs" rely for confirmation of the validity of Mr. (…)

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Tunnels, fossilized wood and radiocarbon dating

Irna — 2008-09-22T23:41:11Z

So, the great "international scientific conference" (en) that Mr. Osmanagic organized in Sarajevo has come to an end; the Chinese archaeologists talked about the Chinese pyramids, the Egyptian archaeologists talked about the Egyptian pyramids... and Mr. Osmanagic's associates gave their usual "arguments": perfect geometry, proto-script, and other pseudogeological analyses, even if they had to set aside part of the New Age fantasies and deliriums à la Goran Cakic; after all, it was a (…)

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Some thoughts about Dr. Nabil Swelim's report

Irna — 2008-08-26T02:03:22Z

After Dr. Barakat's report in November 2007, a second report from Egypt about the "Bosnian pyramids" was published in March 2008 by the team of Mr. Osmanagic's Foundation. This one is Dr. Nabil Swelim's report (en), written in February 2008 following his visit to Bosnia from the 30th August to the 12th September 2007.
Dr. Swelim, a former Admiral come to egyptology after his retirement, is a respected scientist, having published several texts (en), and member of various institutions; he is (…)

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In which the "proto-Bosnian" alphabet is mentioned again

Irna — 2008-04-26T16:05:57Z

Readers will perhaps recall that one of the most outlandish claims of Semir Osmanagic's Foundation was the discovery of certain symbols in the Ravne Tunnel, three kilometres from the Pyramid of the Sun. Muris Osmanagic, their "finder", considers them to be a proto-Bosnian alphabet, "the ancestor of all European alphabets", from Phoenician to Teutonic runes. Muris Osmanagic claims to have identified 52 different symbols:
and the Foundation secured the services of a distinguished (…)

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In search of the lost reports

Irna — 2008-01-30T16:58:30Z

This was the title of an article published on the 11th of January 2008, in the Bosnian magazine BHDani, by Vuk Bacanovic. It seems that the magazine was sent some interesting documents, ones that Mr. Osmanagic would probably have preferred never to be made public. Below appears a translation of the greater part of this article; the original text (bs) can be found in the online archives of the magazine, or, for non-subscribers, on Stultitia's blog (bs).
At the very outset of the research (…)

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At last, Dr. Barakat's report

Irna — 2007-11-06T01:11:27Z

After a long wait, the Egyptian geologist Aly Barakat's report, made after his stay in Visoko in 2006, has at last been published on the Foundation website. You can read it here (en), or download the .pdf file hereunder:
This much expected report may raise more questions, concerning its form and concerning its substance, than it gives answers. Concerning its form, the first question one may ask is: why so long a delay for its publication? Dr. Barakat sojourned in Visoko from the middle of (…)

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Alternative geology

Irna — 2007-09-12T01:57:09Z

A news item from 27th August on Mr. Osmanagic's Foundation Bosnian website recently caught my eye. Under the title "Isklesani lik na ploci" - "Carved face on a slab (bs)" – appears this photograph:
along with the following text:
A visitor to the Pyramid of the Moon sent us this photograph of the surface of one of the slabs on the terraces at the foot of the Pyramid on the west side. The strange undulating patterns on this pyramid and on the stone temple of Vratnica are the subject of (…)

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The "excavation report" for 2006

Irna — 2007-06-18T23:53:17Z

One of the reproaches made by the Bosnian scientific institutions to Mr. Osmanagic's Foundation is the total lack of scientific documentation on the "excavations" made in 2006 (see for instance the opinion on this point of the Bosnian Academy of Sciences, that thinks that this lack makes any serious evaluation of the project impossible); Mr. Osmanagic and his team reply to this reproach (for instance in this text (bs) which is an answer to the Minister of Culture Gavrilo Grahovac's critical (…)

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