Bosnian pyramids bear Giza hallmarks - Egyptian expert said
VISOKO, Bosnia - Egyptian geologist Aly Abd Barakat said on Wednesday that a hill in central Bosnia appeared to be a human-made pyramid of uncertain age.He said that Bosnian pyramids bear similar hallmarks to the ancient structures in his homeland.
Aly Abd Alla Barakat, of the Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority, believes large stone blocks found near Sarajevo were man-made and polished in the same way as the pyramids of Giza, said the Bosnian Pyramid Foundation's Mario Gerussi.
"Barakat has also found the presence of a special material linking the stone blocks which is identical to that used for pyramids in Giza," he added.
Geologist Aly Abd Barakat was sent by Egypt’s government to join the local team researching what Bosnian explorer Semir Osmanagic says are three 12,000-year-old pyramids — the Bosnian Pyramids of Sun, Moon and Dragon.
“In my opinion, it is a type of pyramid, probably primitive pyramid ... (that) we did not know until now,” Barakat told reporters at the dig on the northeastern side of Visocica hill, where huge stone blocks have been found.
“It is difficult for nature to create blocks like this and oriented in one orientation,” he said, pointing to compact polished blocks.
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.
Barakat has extensive knowledge of the pyramids in Giza and had been recommended for the Bosnian mission by Zahi Hawass, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, said Mario Gerussi of the Bosnian Pyramid Foundation.
Osmanagic’s theory about pyramids in Bosnia has been denounced by some 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 skeptics to come to Bosnia.
“They say that civilizations could not build such objects. I say — here is an object, and I invite them to come and find out from which period it dates,” he told Reuters at the site.
Osmanagic has announced the existence of two more pyramid-shaped objects in the Visoko valley, 18 miles (30 kilometers) north of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.
