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Lecture Mosaic about pyramids in Bosnia
6 mei 2010 - You would expect to find the oldest and highest pyramids of the world in Egypt or Mexico, but they are located in Bosnia. Says their discoverer, dr. Semir Osmanagic, who is coming to TU/e to explain this on May 21 during a lecture, organized by the multicultural student association Mosaic.

Archeologist Osmanagic is known as the Bosnian Indiana Jones. Since 2005 he has traveled round the world dressed in a kaki explorer’s outfit in order to tell people what he has discovered in the Visoko valley, twenty kilometers north of Sarajevo. He is convinced that there are five pyramids there. Three of them are situated in an equilateral triangle. Their sides point perfectly in the directions north, south, east and west. They are covered with earth and trees and are so big that a random walker will not spot them just like that. Osmanagic has met with enthusiasm as well as skepticism from his audience. “It is always difficult for the establishment to acknowledge a phenomenon that forces everybody to redefine history”, is what he says about this in films that can be seen on the Internet.

Amel Donko, a third-year student of Electrical Engineering and executive member of Mosaic, has seen the pyramids with his own eyes. Four times already he has visited the valley in Visocica during his holidays, where he has been able to touch stones that have been exposed. “The enormous rectangular stones that have been positioned in a step-like pattern cannot have been formed naturally. The concrete found below them has been determined to be eight to twelve thousand years old. And it is harder than the concrete mankind can make today. I think that the lecture will also be quite interesting for students of Architecture, Building and Planning.”

Osmanagic will divulge more about the material he has examined and the research methods that he uses. He will talk about his analysis of the terraced shape of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon as well as his latest research results of the concrete in the Pyramid of the Sun. More light will also be shed on the complexity of the underground tunnels. (NS)/.

Lecture dr. Semir Osmanagic, May 21, 19.00 hours in the Blauwe Zaal of the Auditorium, admission free.