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His Royal Highness Prince Mensur or: the pyramids, the comet and the Queen of England

Irna — 2011-05-01T04:07:28Z

Regular readers of this site may recall an individual who played a relatively minor role in the ‘pyramids' affair, Dr. Mensur Omerbashich, with whom I exchanged a few emails in 2007. Dr. Omerbashich, a geophysicist, claimed that he offered an alternative interpretation of the Visoko ‘pyramids'. Although critical of some aspects of Mr. Osmanagic's work, he fastened onto Osmanagic's idea of terraformed pyramids, which Omerbashich attributed to the Romans. According to his blog the Romans made (…)

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Russian nesting academies

Irna — 2011-04-16T22:23:14Z

Mr. Osmanagic says that he is opposed to ‘mainstream' science, that he supports ‘popular' science (or populist science? See here : “I am not interested in the approval of elite scientists. This project is for the people”), and can use a whole interview to criticize that same ‘mainstream' science. Nevertheless, he seems unable to refrain from arraying himself in a whole panoply of academic or pseudo-academic degrees – a thirst for ‘mainstream' recognition that, coming as it does from someone (…)

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The Dentist, the Architect, their Foreman and the Customer Service Manager

Irna — 2011-02-04T02:29:00Z

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An outstanding team of experts

Irna — 2011-01-31T00:30:32Z

"An outstanding team of experts"; that's the phrase used by Mr. Osmanagic in an advertising magazine (en and de), destined for the European "élite”, to introduce his new team. The reason why the team could hardly be anything other than new is because there aren't all that many of the original project participants now left; it was not long before the line-up of scientists originally lured to the project by Mr. Osmanagic made themselves scarce (see here or here). Since the summer of 2008 (…)

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The Egyptians and Semir Osmanagic's Theatre of the Absurd

Irna — 2009-06-14T21:57:41Z

This article by Prof. Blagoje Govedarica was published in Oslobodjenje on the 4th of April 2009. Prof. Govedarica teaches archaeology of South-East Europe at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory in Heidelberg University, he is Editor of the Annals of the Centre for Balkan Studies and member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A few days ago, a journalist suggested to me that I take part in a documentary about the excavations at Visoko. He said it would (…)

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One more, one less...

Irna — 2008-09-13T18:44:50Z

One more
Mr. Osmanagic definitely has no luck with the archaeologists. He could not obtain, from the few Egyptian archaeologists and egyptologists he managed to invite to his "international scientific conference" (en), more than a few vague conclusions (en) saying that it is necessary to "answer the origin of the Bosnian pyramidal hills" and postponing any "scientific validation" of his theories to a possible second conference in 2010. At the same time, BHDani magazine published, in its (…)

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"What happened to the objective and unbiased journalism?"

Irna — 2008-08-16T00:17:57Z

"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OBJECTIVE AND UNBIASED JOURNALISM?" was the title of an article published on Mr. Osmanagic's Foundation website (en) in December 2007. It was an attack on the journalist Vuk Bacanovic, of the magazine BHDani (bs), following the publication of articles disclosing various facts that proved of some embarrassment for the Foundation, in particular this article about an interview with the former geologist to the team. The Foundation article accused Vuk Bacanovic of both (…)

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A correspondence with Dr. Barakat

Irna — 2008-01-24T00:00:53Z

About a month after the publication of this article (en) on my website, containing a few comments about Dr. Aly Barakat's report, I received a mail from the Egyptian geologist. Following this first contact ensued an interesting correspondence that I publish here, of course with Dr. Barakat's authorization.
I will copy/paste this entire correspondence, with a few editing as it is sometimes difficult in Dr. Barakat's texts to distinguish between his text and his quotations from the previous (…)

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The Academician, the pyramids and the Moon

Irna — 2007-11-19T22:23:42Z

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 (en) and in Bosnian (bs)). Three months later, on the 16th of November, the Foundation website claims (bs) 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 (en) in Oslo in August (…)

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Egyptian news

Irna — 2007-09-04T23:15:51Z

After the mineralogist Aly Abd Barakat in June 2006, and the egyptologist Mohamed Ibrahim Aly in September 2006, a new group of Egyptian scientists arrived in Visoko to lend their help to Mr. Osmanagic. They are two archaeologists from Cairo Faculty of Archaeology, Dr. Soleiman Hamed El-Heweli and Dr. Mona Fouad Aly, and the third is a member of Alexandria Archaeological Society, Dr Nabil M.A. Swelim; along with these three archaeologists is an old acquaintance of ours, Dr. Barakat.
These (…)

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