Looking for the „Ancient Bosnian Pyramid“ Leads to Friendship
EUROPE, 17 Oct 2011
Amir Telibečirović Lunjo in Sarajevo – TRANSCEND Media Service
The search for the so called ancient pyramids in Bosnia, is still going on. It’s an action that goes on for at least six years already. Many international newspapers and TVs were covering this story for some time, and then, there was a certain silence around it. However, digging, cleaning and searching never stopped.
But first, let’s get reminded briefly about background of this story. Less than ten years ago, approximatelly, bosnian alternative history explorer, Semir Osmanagić, who lived in USA, in the city of Houston for a while, returned home. Then, he noticed that one hill, up to 30 kilometers northern from the bosnian capital Sarajevo, has somehow pyramidical shape, more or less. So, he came up with a theory saying that particular hill, called Visočica, is hiding beneath its soil an ancient pyramid made of stone blocks. Soon after that, he gathered group of coal miners, speleologists, geologists, and archaelogic enthusiasts, and started to dig the hill in order to prove this theory.
He extended theory to several more hills in the same zone, claiming they are also hiding pyramids. All of that caused some public discussions among various bosnian scientists. Many of them are against such a theory, and against exploration of that hill, calling it absurd idea, while at the same time, there are many of those who supports digging action. So far, digging proved there is something under that hill, but it’s not enough to confirm if it is a pyramid or not. Interesting pieces of some structure have been found.
But, if we consider political instability in Bosnia, and still present ethnic and even partly religious segregation in some parts of the country, there is another significant thing related to the story of ‘bosnian pyramid’ search. It’s enthusiasm among young volunteers who came to this archaelogic site to help with digging, cleaning or preparing food for the workers and researchers.
Despite all chauvinist propaganda, which is occasionally present in some local media, people of different ethnic backgrounds, faiths, from various cities and villages of Bosnia, spontaneously came here to work together. Even from the wider Balkan region, not just from Bosnia. As some of them claim, even if they find nothing after digging, it wouldn’t be for nothing, because many new friendships are made on this location and through this working action. Plus, the number of the volunteers, mostly teenagers, is growing from month to month.
It started with few hundreds than it grew to couple of thousands, and it still goes up. It looks a bit like old working actions held accross the former Yugoslavia, during the communist period few decades ago. Unlike the old actions from yesterday, pyramid diggers of today are not doing this out of some ideology, but simply for a friendship, breaking prejudices, getting working experience. Well, for the faith in the „first discovered ancient pyramid on the european soil“ too. Bosnian Serbs, bosnian Muslims, bosnian Croats, kids from the so called „mixed marriages“, they all work, sleep, eat, using toilet and laugh together here, against prognoses from international self proclaimed „Balkan experts“ in developed countries, who claim that people here can’t live together any more.
This situation recalls one dark humor joke from the war period in the 90s, which appeared during the military siege around Sarajevo and shelling. It goes like – „Why is Bosnia unlucky country.“ – „Because it has certain Muslim poulation, but no oil.“ Nowdays we can say, it’s still without oil, at least officially, but it has a pyramids similar to those in Egypt, at least unofficially. Hopefully it will get a revolutionary spirit from Egyptian youth as well, considering high presence of political corruption in all levels of bosnian government. Currently, it seems like it might be easier to discover ancient stone pyramid in the middle of Bosnia, then to remove a pyramid of political corruption in this country, from municipalities all the way to the parliament and presidency.
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Amir Telibečirović Lunjo is bosnian journalist of the Sarajevo based Magazine called Start BiH and few info web portals. He is also local city guide through the Sarajevo city and surrounding mountains.
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 17 Oct 2011.
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