The Bosnian Pyramid

Was informed of this new and exciting discovery soon after arrival at the Hostel Lubljicica in Sarajevo. Sceptical, but a few of us decided to check it out anyway. Destination Visoko or 'Pyrmid City' as it has become known.

Apparently discovered about a year ago and under excavation for 1 month and 10 days it is being described as the most significant archeological monument in Europe. Initially identified from satellite images, further analysis suggests there are 3 pyramids in the area. As you approach Visoko on the bus, one of the mountains clearly looks pyramidical, that's for sure, but it's obvious, how did they only discover it a year ago ?

A climb up the 'pyramid', guided by some young Indian Jones like lad who tried to appear to be an official guide (he had some badges and everything), to where some excavation are taking place show some unconvincing uncovered areas of flat, sloping stones. One of the team working on the excavation tells us how the formations and structure of the rocks clearly show something man-made and not something created by nature. They believe them to be 12,500 years old and rise at an angle of 53 degrees (pyramids in Egypt are at a 52 degree incline). An expert from Egypt had been there in recent weeks and was astounded and convinced that this was something from an ancient civilistion also.

Currently funding is low and the team consists of only 12 men, but hope to increase future awareness and therefore generate more investement for research. As it stands now, they have no idea what the results of the research will be, but for now it's a potentially exciting time for tourism in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Whether this will turn out to be a genuine case of pyramids from ancient times, who knows, but if it is, then in a few years this could be one of the biggest tourist attractions in Europe and we could have been one of the first few to see it !

Here are some photos so you can decide for yourself.




Left: View from Visoko town.
Right: uncovered area of stones.



The team for the day:
(Back left to right): James (US), Sam (Eire), 'Jimmy' (Eire)
(Front left to right): Me, our young guide for the day, Dan (UK /Norway)

Have to add too, the tourist wave has already hit Visoko full steam. Close to the bus station was the 'Pyramid Hotel" and restaurant. Stalls lined the streets to the hill, err sorry, pyramid, selling t-shirts and mini-pyramids, even though no-one really knows what it looks like yet, they have though already designed the mini-pyramids for tourists. And most surprisingly, a local cafe even had pyramid logo on their suger sachets !

Check out these websites for latest news

http://www.bosnian-pyramid.com/ or http://www.bosnianpyramids.org/