If historical science recognizes the discovery of a Bosnian from the United States, Semir Osmanagic, the recently discovered 220-meter pyramid hanging over the Bosnian town of Vysoko will be considered the tallest on the planet
- Well, look, - Professor Senad Godovich, director of the local history museum, took me outside from his cozy office - isn't Vysochitsa not like other mountains? The edges are even, the edges are almost perfectly straight.
I was in no hurry to agree with the enthusiast. Then he dragged me into the museum hall and pointed to a panoramic photograph of the city, taken in 1931.
- You see, at that time Vysochitsa was not covered with forest, as it is now, and the ribs are more clearly visible. Well, now there is no doubt that this is a pyramid?
Frankly, doubts still remained.
Those who have traveled along the Nile Valley will agree: among the Arabian mountains there are many pointed, with smooth edges - one would like to say “structures”, and they, perhaps, look more like pyramids than a Bosnian wonder.
However, Semir Osmanagich thinks otherwise. Once a Houston friend working at NASA showed Semir a satellite image of a region of central Bosnia - it's nice to look at your homeland from an unattainable height. For a long time, the Bosnian was looking at the vicinity of the town of Zenica, where he was born and lived before the collapse of Yugoslavia. And suddenly I was stunned: three mountains next to a neighboring town High in the plan are regular squares and have distinct diagonals intersecting at right angles.
The excavated blocks of the Vysochitsa pyramid.
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The economist and political scientist Osmanagich has many years of independent research on the Central American Mayan pyramids and seven published books on the most ancient civilizations of the Earth. His conviction that before us the planet was inhabited by highly developed beings who knew and were able to much more than us, it seems, received a new powerful reinforcement.
In 2005, the adventurer embarked on independent excavations in his homeland. Sandstone blocks with traces of manual processing have not even been found yet, underground passages that look like tunnels have not yet been excavated, and sensational news has spread throughout Bosnia: the town of Vysoko is huddled against a huge pyramid.
In the summer of 2006, Semir returned to the interrupted excavations well-armed: sponsorship money allowed him to hire workers, bring equipment and transport, on the site of the western slope of Vysočica, he opened an exhibition presenting the first achievements: excavated blocks, allegedly made artificially, photographs of paved paths lying under the earthen by the cover of the mountain.
The first like-minded people also appeared. Geophysicist from Nevada Amer Smailbegovich claims that when radar scanned the mountain, labyrinths were discovered, the total length of which is close to four kilometers. The guess about the artificial origin of Vysočica was confirmed by Bosnian scientists - archaeologist Silvana Chobanov, geologist Najia Nukich, historian Muamer Shekhovich. Geologist Abdullah Berokyat, who was specially invited to the excavations from Cairo, confirmed that the sandstone blocks retain traces of intelligent activity: on the surface of the lower blocks, traces of the movement of the upper ones are visible.
Osmanagich's conviction of his discovery was strengthened when Dr. Johann Müller of the German National Institute for Prehistory, who had been conducting research on the territory of Vysoko for four years, concluded that human civilization in these ancient places in the Balkans dates back at least 7 thousand years. Not a bad figure, considering that Osmanagich estimates the age of the pyramid he discovered at 10-20 thousand years.
According to Professor Godovich, Semir counted 11 arguments in favor of the fact that Mount Vysochitsa is indeed a pyramid.
One of the strongest is the result of thermal studies of the area, commissioned by Osmanagich on the Japanese satellite "Terra". It was allegedly found that during the night time Vysočica cools faster than the neighboring mountains. Accordingly, it warms up faster during the day. This, as it were, is explained by the fact that the man-made mountain is made of dissimilar stones, and the neighboring mountains are made of monolithic rocks.
A block of sandstone extracted from under the soil layer of Vysochitsa differs in composition from similar stones taken from neighboring mountains: in those mountains, gradual deposition of rocks is noticeable, and the block, which served as a building material, seems to be made artificially.
Hydrological studies show that rainwater flows uniformly along various faces of the discovered pyramid, while from neighboring mountains - along curved channels of spontaneously emerging streams.
True, one more argument, expounded by Osmanagich with professorial respectability to sightseers who endlessly come to Vysochitsa, personally caused me only a smile:
- I asked the soldiers of the Bosnian army who fought here in 1992-1995. The vibration of this mountain after the artillery volleys was very different from the vibration of the neighboring mountains.
The final opinion expressed to me by Professor Godovich, with his Odessa dialectics, only strengthens doubts:
- Is there a pyramid inside Vysočica, is it not there - in any case, for the Bosnian people this is a most valuable find.
One cannot but agree with this statement. The air of all TV channels in Bosnia and Herzegovina is filled with Osmanagic. This charming macho man in a Texas sombrero smiles from the pages of the leading newspapers of the young state, from the covers of the early-maturing books, which are lined with shop windows in Sarajevo.
At one point, Vysoko turned from a spider-web backwater into Novye Vasyuki, seething with ideas: an endless string of Opels and Volkswagens reaching out to the medieval capital of Bosnia. Souvenir shops are filled with clocks, on the dials of which the "pyramid of the sun" shines (this is how the enterprising discoverer hastened to name his brainchild by analogy with the stepped Mexican pyramid). Keychains and lighters, clay piggy banks and bottles of plum brandy - everything in the town of Vysoko has been enriched with the brand of the "Bosan pyramid of Sunza". The unemployed became traders, the beggar boys became guides, the grandmothers selling vegetables became guides. As they say in such cases, even if the pyramid of the Sun did not exist, it should have been invented.
Moreover, this is not the first successful example of the creation of a place of mass pilgrimage in Bosnia. A hundred kilometers to the south, near the town of Medjigorje, a valley flourishes, in which, in 1983, the shining figure of the Mother of God appeared to six children. The children have grown up long ago, but they continue to give the most valuable testimonies. A colossal statue of the Virgin Mary was built in the valley, to which signs from all roads of the country lead. Tourism and the related revenues have received a powerful boost in the war-torn country.
But it seems that eyewitnesses to the visit of the Virgin are just pathetic amateurs in comparison with the researcher of ancient civilizations. Semir Osmanagich does not stop there: next to the pyramid of the Sun, two more mountains that are clearly not of natural origin please the eye with the correct geometry - the pyramid of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Dragon. In total, in the satellite image of his native Bosnia, an observant resident of Houston spotted nine pyramids. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the future of the tourism business of the troubled Balkan country.