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“Lecture about contested pyramids detrimental to reputation TU/e”
20 mei 2010 - Not everyone is pleased with the lecture about the Bosnian pyramids that dr. Semir Osmanagic will present at TU/e tomorrow night (Friday May 21). He will do so by invitation of the multicultural student association Mosaic. Computer science student Sujit Prasannakumar: “TU/e should not provide a platform for pseudo-scientists like Osmanagic.”

What bothers Prasannakumar is this: “I am afraid that TU/e is making a foolish impression by allowing the visit of this pseudo-archeologist. At the time of his ‘discovery’ in 2005 Osmanagic was not qualified as an archeologist. He studied sociology later. He has not made any publications in professional journals. He is twisting facts and sends research material to befriended laboratories.” Prasannakumar is of the opinion that the pyramids in Bosnia are natural formations. “Otherwise you would surely have seen where the rocks that the builders have used came from. Nowhere in the surroundings do you see that material, however.” What you do see a lot in the Visoko valley are natural caves. Prasannakumar thinks that Osmanagic has hacked away the stalactites and stalagmites so as to show them as underground chambers.

Ever since the first reports about the ‘discovery’ of the pyramids, the Indian has followed everything that is written about them. “I read each publication on the subject. If you just Google ‘Osmanagic Unesco’ you see a letter written by renowned archeologists in which they warn about the damage that Osmanagic is causing to the hills through his excavations. I am proud of TU/e and I very much resent it for providing a platform for this bullshit. In fact there should be someone who screens whatever is brought to TU/e. I want to warn people. When this man is exposed, he will drag down the reputation of our university of technology.”

Amel Donko, executive member of Mosaic and initiator of this lecture, grants everybody every right to attach some or no value at all to the existence of pyramids in Bosnia. “If anything, our intention is to open a dialogue. After the lecture there will be time for discussion. Listeners will have to arrive at their own judgments.” (NS)/.