Archeologists may have found ancient pyramid -- in Bosnia

[EC]

BY AMEL EMRIC


VISOKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Researchers on Wednesday unearthed geometrically cut stone slabs that they said could form part of the sloping surface of what they believe is an ancient pyramid lying beneath a huge hill.

Archeologists and other experts began digging at this central Bosnian town last week to explore the team leader's theory that the 2,120-foot hill covers a step pyramid, which would be the first ever found in Europe.

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Under layers of dirt, workers discovered a paved entrance plateau, entrances to tunnels and large stone blocks.

Satellite photographs and thermal imaging revealed two other, smaller pyramid-shaped hills in the Visoko Valley.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bosnia21.html

Wow, north of Greece, I wonder if these are Egyptian? Or the Greek or Roman empire coping the Egyptians?

[democracyindanger]

1. Don't write off the possibility

that Egypt had nothing to do with it. After all, the Maya came up with pyramids on their own.

Regardless, what a find.

[tatertop]

8. Wouldn't you love to be among the first to enter?

Particulary the biggest of the three pyramids.

[EC]

15. That would be neat... n/t

[Teaser]

2. I doubt it's Roman.

Perhaps Greek. Given the area, some kind of pre-Greek or proto-greek civilization is possible. But as to copying the Egyptians, pyramids seem to be kind of universal. I wouldn't be surprised if it originated on its own. Hell, the Native americans of Illinois built Cahokia.

I just wish someone would find an ancient pyramidal structure in western PA.

[EC]

4. Some in Wisconsin too... n/t

[Teaser]

6. Those ancient cities are *Completely* neglected

by American History. Or at least they were when I went to school. I saw this image of Cahokia once while cruising the web...and I was floored as to what I hadn't been told about.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Like Aztalan & the underwater structures in adjoining Rock Lake.

Edited to add:

Found: the lost pyramids of rock lake
The purported pyramids found on the muddy floor of Wisconsin's Rock Lake are so fascinating that we must pass on the following report, even though it comes from outside the group of publications we usually rely on. In fact, we have never seen anything on these pyramids in the scientific press, although in SF#30 we did present an earlier report on them from the Wisconsin State Journal. So, caveat emptor!


The first sketch of the Rock Lake Pyramid from a 1970 issue of Skin Diver, as presented in Ancient Man.
The author of this article, F. Joseph, states that beneath the surface of Rock Lake lie at least ten structures. Two of these have been mapped and photographed by skin divers and sonar. Structure #1, which has been dubbed the Limnatis Pyramid, has a base width of 60 feet, a length of about 100 feet, and a height of 18 feet, although only about 10 feet protrude from the silt and mud. It is a truncated pyramid, built largely out of round, black stones. On the truncated top, the stones are squarish. The remains of a plaster coating can be discerned.

The Rock Lake structures are made more believable by the presence, 3 miles away, of the Indian site of Aztalan. There, there are two truncated, earthen pyramids, partially surrounded by a tall stockade, which was originally plastered. Aztalan seems to have been occupied as late as the Fourteenth Century.

(Joseph, Francis; "Found: The Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake," Fate, 42:88, October 1989.)

[EC]

13. Yeah, I live in Kenosha and Rock Lake is in our county

went fishing there a lot...it's one of our deepest Lakes in the area...good fishing...maybe it's pyramid power...

[DUHandle]

3. Semir Osmanagic is right

it will be an interesting summer.

[electropop]

5. Wow. I'm series, that's cool.

Major major find, and right in Europe.

I'm trying to figure how a 740 ft pyramid can be under a 2100 ft hill, yet the shape of the hill is geometric.

[hippiechick]

7. Grahamhancock.com Discussion thread w/ pics ....

here ---> http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=207006&t=207006



:hi: This is SO COOL!!!

[tatertop]

11. Good pictures there and a very spirited discussion of the matter

[EC]

14. Thanks.. n/t

[mirandapriestly]

10. In Bosnia? Fascinating mystery, I don't know what civilization lived there

during that time. It could have been made by people who had come there from somewhere else, too. I love stuff like this, thanks for posting!

[EC]

16. I love it too, almost minored in archeology...

couldn't travel at the time though (money and child)so I settled for just a major in fine arts...did go on one dig in Arizona as the artist and map drawer...

[UnseenUndergrad]

12. Illyrian maybe?

Or perhaps Proto-Macedonian.

All I'm saying is, it would seem a bit to northernly for the Phonecians to be involved.