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The Bosnian pyramids are the biggest discovery in archeology, and one of the biggest in the science.

Around the globe, pyramids have dotted the line of human history, sparkling as jewels of spiritual, intellectual and cooperative achievement for ages. From South America to China, from India to the Middle East, pyramids remain as inspirational as they are enigmatic, many thousands of years after their creation. Inquiring viewers, today on Science and Spirituality, we present the first in a three-part interview with the Bosnian-American pyramid researcher and author, Dr. Sam Semir Osmanagich about the Bosnian pyramids.

For the last 25 years, I have been investigating pyramids all over the world, and I know that they are not phenomena linked to Egypt and Mexico. They were built everywhere during the ancient times.

Dr. Osmanagich, called “Bosnia’s Indiana Jones,” has devoted his life to the exploration of ancient civilizations. He has written 10 books about the advanced societies of long ago such as the Mayan civilization which flourished in the Americas. These texts have been published in the United States, Turkey, Croatia, Estonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2007, he narrated a Bosnian state television channel-produced 12-episode documentary called “Search for Lost Civilization” that is based on his book “Civilizations Before the Official History.” Dr. Osmanagich discovered the Bosnian pyramids by chance during a visit to his homeland.

In April of 2005, I first came to the town of Visoko, even though for about 25 years I lived in the city of Sarajevo which is just 20 miles from Visoko, but I had no need to go there. And then, I went there to see something else, to see the local museum. But when I saw such a beautiful structure with the regular geometry and perfect orientation, I knew it was a manmade structure. I climbed to the top, then I saw another structure across the valley, also covered by wood, and I knew that we have manmade pyramids.

And somehow a picture started coming to my mind. I could see that the whole valley was paved; everybody who had come here had to go between those two pyramids. Those pyramids have been covered by soil and vegetation. We have to realize that most of the pyramids in the world, like 250 of them in China, they’re completely covered by soil. We have hundreds of pyramids, in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras; they are all in the jungles, also covered, the same thing as in Bosnia.

There are a total of five pyramids in Visoko and Dr. Osmanagich now further explains about these structures.

Between the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon there is a very obvious astronomical connection, namely, the shadow of the Sun Pyramid moves in the valley, and before the Sun sets, that shadow covers the Moon Pyramid. In a symbolic way it’s saying the role of the day and the Sun is over and the role of the night and the Moon starts. I’ve seen hundreds of pyramids by the same name in Central and South America, but such a clear astronomical connection is only in Bosnia.

The third structure, I called the Pyramid of Dragon not because we had dragons in Bosnia, but the dragon is a symbol for power and knowledge in China, in Mexico, and in Peru. So I gave my respect to the knowledgeable builders. The fourth structure, I called the Temple of Mother Earth. In this society, we have forgotten to pay our respect to this planet, which gives us life. The ancient people knew how to respect this planet, and they did call it Mother Earth. And the fifth pyramid I called the Pyramid of Love. We know that words are very powerful and the most powerful word is the word “Love.” I want that this word color the valley with love.

Over the years, a number of experts have concluded that the hills in Visoko are not natural formations. In 2007, Dr. Ali Abdullah Barakat, an Egyptian geologist, stated, “The stone plates [in the hills] are handmade.” Chris Dunn, a pyramid researcher, and the author of “The Giza Power Plant” and “Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt,” also believes humans built the Bosnian pyramids.

In order to call something a “pyramid,” you have to have five elements. Number one is the geometry. You have to have the geometry of a pyramid. It means you have to have triangle faces, four of them. You have to see the corners and a rectangle or square as a base. In the case of the Bosnian pyramids, that’s what they all have, perfect geometry.

The second element is the orientation. For some reason, all Chinese pyramids are oriented east, west, north, and south. Most of the Egyptian pyramids also match the cardinal points, east, west north, and south. Most of the Peruvian (pyramids do), (and) the same thing with (the) Bosnian. So, for some reason, the orientation is a very important factor.

Number three, there has to be construction material. In Egypt they use limestone and granite. In Guatemala, they use volcanic stone; in Peru, they use adobe bricks, all this is local material. In Bosnia, they use conglomerate to make the concrete blocks and they use sandstone.

Number four, there are always inner passageways and chambers in the pyramids. And that’s what we located with the satellite radar and the geo radar on the ground. And number five, there are underground tunnels that connect all the pyramids. All five elements are present in the case of the Bosnian pyramids, so they fulfill all the scientific criteria.

Dr. Osmanagich has created a non-profit research organization called The Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation whose mission is to facilitate archaeological excavation of the pyramid sites in Visoko Valley. Excavation work began in April 2007.

And then I started this scientific project, I got involved with so many wonderful people from all over the world, so many scientists, researchers, volunteers, and tourists who give us moral support. So it has become a special place on this planet.

Between 2005 and March 2011, approximately 500,000 people including various pyramid experts, the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Excellency Dr. Haris Silajdžić and His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia have visited the Bosnian pyramids. In August 2008, the “First International Scientific Conference on the Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids” took place in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over 50 archaeologists, Egyptologists, geologists, architects, chemists, and experts in other disciplines came from around the world to participate in the gathering.

The Great Pyramid of Egypt or Khufu’s or Cheops Pyramid is 147.5 meters in height. The Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun is at least 220 meters, which is one-third higher, but three times more in volume. So, when you have something so big, it changes our view of history. The second biggest (pyramid), the Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon, with its height of 190 meters, is also bigger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

Now, when we analyze the soil that covers the pyramid, done by the Institute for Pedology in Bosnia, the results have shown that the soil is over 12,000 years old. In other words, the pyramids are even older. According to mainstream scientists, Egyptian pyramids are only 4,600 years old, and the Chinese, Peruvian or Mexican (pyramids are) 2,200 years old. So if the Bosnian (pyramids) are over 12,000 years old, it means they are not only the biggest, but the oldest.

The discovery of the Bosnian pyramids takes us back thousands and thousands of years, before what we consider today as the beginning of civilization. The ancient Sumer, Babylon, Akkad, Assyria, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Indian and so on, it’s about 8,000 years (old). The Bosnian pyramids, are all 12,000 years (old), meaning we need to move (the date of) the beginning of advanced civilization. So it’s not just a matter for us adding a couple of chapters in our history books.

No, we need to completely rewrite them. When it comes to radiocarbon dating, we've done a lot of analysis with the leading institutions like University of Uppsala in Sweden, University of Kiel in Germany, and Silesian University of Technology in Poland and we are getting a lot of results. Thirty two thousand years is the age of a piece of wood that we discovered in the underground tunnels. And this is probably the time when the accumulation of this material called conglomerate started.

So why is that important? Because under the conglomerate, before 32,000 years ago, we are finding some ceramic blocks (which are) up to 18,000 pounds (in weight).

They are manmade. So somebody had technology more than 30,000 years ago to make those ceramic blocks. The age of the pyramids will be exactly (determined) when we enter the chambers inside the pyramid, which we haven’t yet. And then we (will) find the organic material that belongs to the original builders; a piece of wood or bone or charcoal.

Through satellite images and aerial photos of the Visoko Valley, Dr. Osmanagich has detected a pattern with regards to the placement of the Bosnian pyramids and says this design is found at pyramid sites elsewhere in the world.

The three main pyramids in Bosnia, Sun, Moon, and Dragon, form an equilateral triangle when you connect their tops and the distance between the tops is approximately one and a half miles.

So obviously somebody was planning how to build and lay them out. Of course we know that in the last few decades there are scientists, independent researchers who were finding very interesting stuff. For example, the three pyramids on the Giza plateau, Cheops, Khafre and Menkaure, they form a triangle. And three pyramids on the plateau Teotihuacan in Mexico, the pyramids of the Sun, Moon and Quetzalcoatl, they have the same layout, which perfectly matches the layout of the three stars in the Orion belt.

Thank you Dr. Sam Semir Osmanagich for speaking to us about your intriguing discovery in Visoko and our appreciation goes to your foundation for helping to uncover a part of humankind’s fascinating ancient architectural legacy.

For more details on Dr. Sam Semir Osmanagich and the Bosnian pyramids, please visit the following websites: Books by Dr. Osmanagich are available at www.SemirOsmanagic.com www.BosnianPyramidoftheSun.com
Please join us next Monday on Science and Spirituality for the second in a three-part interview with Dr. Osmanagich. www.InterLiber.com

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