The Bosnian Pyramids

The Bosnian Pyramids

   

       “Pyramid.”   
      The dictionary definition is a shape, with a square base and four triangular sides that meet at the top.  If you are thinking of a large, monumental structure built in that shape, immediately you think of Egypt.  

        A pyramid is the icon of Egypt.  Despite that stereotype, Egypt is not the only place with pyramids.  Egypt has about 155 known pyramids, discovered so far. Satellite imagery is revealing more and more structures in the desert and there are more pyramids hidden with them.

Nevertheless, there are thousands of other pyramids, world-wide, on all six continents.  There are 43 in Sicily and Sardinia.  There are 16 in Greece.  India has 224.  There are pyramids in the Sudan, in Java, in the biblical Ur of Iraq. 

In the Shaanxi province of China, 250 pyramids of various sizes have been catalogued by aerial and satellite surveillance.  For some reason, they have all been systematically covered with trees and shrubbery by the Chinese government and surrounded by what is called “The Forbidden Zone,” a no-go zone for anyone not living and farming in the area.

There are three in Korea.  There is one in Maráe, Tahiti.  There are seven in Mauritius, an island of the Indian Ocean.  In the Canary Islands, there are dozens.  They exist in the waters off of Cuba, a half a mile below the surface of the current ocean, on the sea floor.  There are 300 in Peru and several at Montevecchia, in Milan, Italy.  

The grand prize for overachieving has to go to Central America, however, which has 10,000 (with more being discovered in the jungle all the time).  These were built by the Maya in what are now Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

With all these examples, certain commonalities can be deduced.  There are seven elements to the oldest pyramids, all over the world:

1.  Geometry – they all have a rectangular or square base and four triangular or trapezoidal sides.

2.  Orientation - The sides of the very oldest pyramids are always aligned either to cosmic or magnetic north.  Cosmic north is determined by the stars, the Pole Star (Polaris) especially, and is slightly different from magnetic north, by a few degrees.  The magnetic compass is supposed to be a fairly recent invention (1,000 A.D.).  So how did the ancients know that magnetic north even existed?

3.  Artificially shaped construction materials.  If the pyramid is made of stone, for instance, the stones are shaped and fitted - not just natural rocks stacked up.

4.  There are inner passages within the pyramid.

5.  There are one or more water sources nearby.

6.  There is an underground waterway.

7.  They are made with extraordinary precision.  The mathematical and engineering exactitude is always of the highest caliber and would be a great challenge even for today’s builders and engineers, with their modern instruments and equipment.  

        This brings us to the Bosnian pyramids.  In 2005, Semir Osmanagich (Ŏz-mahn-áh-gitch), a Bosnian born, Houston based professor of anthropology, was traveling through the small town of Visoko, Bosnia, 20 miles northwest of the capital city of Sarajevo..  He had been doing extensive research on pyramids around the world and as he cast his eyes upward to the hills surrounding the village, he noticed one that clearly had straight lines, angled edges and a pyramidal shape.
 

        Traveling around the hill, he could see that all four sides had regular faces that formed a pyramid.  Checking his compass, he saw that the sides were oriented to the cardinal points.  

View of the largest and most defined anomaly, the "Pyramid of the Sun."

         
      Excited about his discovery, he first tried to get Bosnian government involvement in researching this strange site.  When they showed no interest, he formed the "Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun," a non-profit organization, which proceeded to mount attempts to examine the strange geologic feature.

        This was, to my mind, a very good thing.  Instead of the usual governmental or academic compartmentalization and suppression of whatever information they didn’t like, this organization has invited scientists from all over the world, and from all disciplines, to contribute.  They only ask that the researchers don’t destroy anything and that they share their findings with the organization, which publishes them to the world.

        These are the things that have been ascertained so far:

1.   One theory is that these formations are natural results of the up pushing of tectonic plates.  Geologists ruled that the geo-morphological shape does not coincide with the known plate movement in the area.  The direction that the plates are moving would not have pushed up these shapes at this angle.

2.  Five pyramidal shapes have been identified in the vicinity, so far.  Research has focused primarily around the largest and most clearly defined feature, which has been designated “The Pyramid of the Sun.”  If you zoom in to the Visoko area on Google maps, you can clearly see that the shadow of the mountain is a perfect equilateral triangle.

View of the five separate pyramids so far identified

 3.  All of the pyramids have regular geometry – four triangular faces and sharp lines.  The sides are precisely aligned to the cardinal points.  The angles are all exactly 35 or 45 degrees – not 42 degrees or 46.5, but exactly 35 or 45 degrees.

4.  The Pyramid of the Sun measures 722 feet square by 450 feet high, twice the size of the great pyramid of Giza.  The slope of the sides of the buried side surfaces of the pyramid are constant, from bottom to top.

5.  Civil engineers used surface based ground penetrating radar that reached 55 feet deep.  They located 49 unnatural anomalies – blocks, tunnels and passages. The scans showed a paved entrance way leading up to the edge of the pyramid, underground tunnels and chambers.

6.  Thermal scans show that the pyramids cool faster at night than the surrounding terrain, because the structures are hollow, due to the passages and chambers. 

7.  Biologists report that the surface of the pyramid is 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside.  Because of this, the vegetation growing on the pyramid is usually found in the Mediterranean, rather than in Bosnia.

8.  Satellite based and military ground penetrating radar both identified large, straight tunnels stretching for miles, both under the pyramid and beyond it, in three levels.

More tunnels

9.  Military ground penetrating radar mapped tunnels within the pyramid forming spirals up into the structure. The tunnels run 280 feet below the top of the pyramid.

Tunnel excavations

10.      Polycontrast Interference Photography (PIP), a technology that takes visual images of the electromagnetic field over a landscape, shows field layers that are horizontal over the rest of the countryside, but form vertical lines over the pyramids.

11.      There is NO radioactivity in the area of the pyramid.  The levels read are 10 times below the norm.

12.      Multiple physicists have confirmed that there is an ultrasonic wave being emitted from a 13-foot-wide circle on the top of the pyramid and grows stronger the higher above the pyramid that the readings are taken.  The wave form is completely regular, always at 28 kHz, like a machine, totally unlike any other natural emission, either nearby or anywhere else.

13.      Geophysicists from varying agencies used seismic refraction (setting off explosions and reading the echoes from the subsurface features).  All of the different scans corroborated each other and the radar images. Seismic readings match the readings taken from the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

14.      Core samples showed that the material of the pyramids is non-compact, not a natural result of ordinary sedimentation.

Causeway on the north side of the Pyramid of the Sun

 15.      Excavations show that there is a causeway a meter below the surface that is a meter thick.  The pavement is 800 feet long by 250 feet wide.  It is constructed of sandstone plates, 7 inches thick, smoothed and flattened on all 6 surfaces

Section of unearthed pavement

16.      So far, 47 archaeological trenches have been dug.  They have found equidistant and regular steps, pavement, walls, terraces.

Three different levels of pavement.

17.      The sandstone and concrete that compose these features are arranged in layers.  Clay is used as mortar between the blocks, which binds it with a flexible bond and acts as an insulation.

Another section of pavement, of completely different style and construction

     18.      The rectangular blocks that have been excavated on the sides of the pyramid hill measure, on the average, 5 feet x 30 feet x 1.5 feet.  They weigh about 1,600 lbs., which is around .7 tons.  If the entire Pyramid of the Sun is all covered, it would take 18 million tons of concrete to cover it. Concrete blocks up to 80 tons have been located, so far.

     19.      Six different construction material labs analyzed samples of the concrete.  They all concluded that the concrete was definitely artificial and was three times the hardness and durability of any other known form of concrete.

More pavement

     20.      The durability and hardness of the concrete comes from the fact that the stone and gravel used in the concrete is bound together by the local clay.  This clay must have been heated to 500 degrees or more, to set and harden it.  In other words, the pavement and sides of the structures are made of 3/4 ton bricks.  Who has a kiln that can produce that number of 1,600 lb. bricks?  Who builds with things that big?

Another paved causeway section

21.      The tunnel excavations have yielded artifacts.  Megaliths weighing 18,000 lbs (that’s 9 tons, or 9 times the weight of a car) formed of artificial ceramics, have runes impressed (not carved) into their surfaces.  

One of the rune covered monoliths.  Color has been added digitally to highlight the different runes.

   





  






    Let me emphasize that the writing (similar to ancient Hungarian runic scripts developed in the Carpathian Basin) were impressed into the stones, not chiseled. 

Another view of the same stone

     That is, someone took a wet, soft piece of ceramic (like pottery) that weighed 9 tons and pressed runic letters into it before firing it and then moving it into the tunnel.  Nature could not have made these stones.

Monolith with runic inscriptions

Ceramic monolith

22.      Containers, tools and molds made to cast metal objects have also been found.

Molds to make a knife blade and a cleaver.

23.      Many of the passages conduct water, which tests exceptionally pure.

 










     What are we to conclude from this information?

An oddly carved stone from the tunnels.  Red stone with gray stone inserts.

1.   A great deal more research is needed.

2.  The feature designated as The Pyramid of the Sun has all seven features of pyramids from around the world, mentioned on the list above.

3.  Once again, artifices and artifacts have been found, of a style and an expertise level that has never been previously seen, made by an unknown people previously unsuspected.

A ceramic pyramid found in the tunnels.  Perhaps the world's first souvenir?  Or a model of what the entire pyramid may look like?

4.  The constructions, both the individual components and in total, are enormous in size. 

 

5.  No historical evidence of these structures has previously existed.

6.  A swarm of little guys in loin cloths, using ropes and stone axes, absolutely did not manufacture these features and then assemble them into place.

WARNING!!

        The truth is there.  You just have to see it.

        This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.  

        It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently created an advanced civilization that exceeds our own.  It was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 4,500 years trying to preserve or re-build that civilization.  I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored, discredited or suppressed by people who have an opposing agenda.

         Nothing that you see on this blog is original.  Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books.  I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice.  That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

        The point is, nothing here is made up.  The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in its readily discernible pattern. 

      You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

The Ancient Port of Lothal

The Ancient Port of Lothal

 
      If you try to do an online search for the ancient ruins of the city of Lothal in India, you will have trouble.  Apparently, Lothal is also the name of one of the planets in the Star Wars stories and plays a significant role, so about half your search results will concern that.  We are, however, concerned with the real Lothal – a much more interesting place. 

        

      

     






      Lothal is located about 30 miles from the current northwest coast of what we now call India, in the state of Gujarāt, near the current village of Saragwala.  Such was not always the case.  

      
     Dated by archaeologists as far back as 3,700 B.C., the city of Lothal was not always known by that name.  We have no idea what the original inhabitants called their city, as their writing is untranslatable and sparse at that.  “Lothal” means “mound of the dead” in the local Gujarati language, just like “Mohenjo-Daro” means the same thing in the local Sindhi language.  

 

       Appropriately so, as both cities were inhabited by the peoples of the civilization called the Indus River Valley or Harappan or Indus

 

-Sarasvati.  We have looked at this culture before in the first posting of this blog.  

 

The Harappan civilization stretched over an area the size of western Europe and had many interconnected cities, towns, villages, roads and ports.  Their buildings reached three and four stories high.  They had streetlights.  They had grid planned cities, sophisticated drainage and waterworks, sewage systems.  They had extremely accurate weight systems and a decimal system of measurements.  They made finely grained stoneware ceramics, which can turn a steel tool, from ordinary, large grained terra cotta clay.  Their bronze alloys were as hard as modern steel.  

Since they lived so long ago, it is difficult to determine why they died out, but the evidence points to a combination of natural disasters and war (perhaps even including nuclear weapons – see my first blog entry for the evidence).  

The peoples around the Persian Gulf apparently called the Harappan civilization "Meluha." Trade goods and seals from the Persian Gulf area have been found in Lothal.  "Inscriptions from ancient Babylon and Akkad speak proudly of the number of great ships from Meluha that berthed at their cities.  Five such references have been found in the cuneiform records of the time before Hammurabi (1792 BC).  One concerns Sargon of Akkad (2334-2279 BC) and tells us: 'the ships from Meluha...he made to tie alongside the quay of Akkad.'

"Interestingly, a terracotta seal from Mohenjodaro (another Meluhan city) shows a large high-prowed ship with a spacious on-deck cabin.  Fore and aft of the cabin perch two birds which archaeologists believe are 'land-finding birds [diskakas]. As the reader will undoubtedly be aware, many ancient traditions of the global flood, not least the biblical story of Noah, make prominent mention of the role played of the role played in the navigation of the survival ship by birds just such as these." (Hancock, Graham, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, Three Rivers Press, New York, 2002, pp. 141-142)

Lothal was probably the southern-most population center of that advanced culture and perhaps the last to exist.  It's population was estimated to be around 30,000, although I’m sure that this waxed and waned with the coming and going of trade ships and caravans.  Excavation and investigation have been limited, so it may have been much larger.  Other significant Meluhan cities have been estimated as reaching populations as high as 150,000.

Lothal’s location has always been known by the locals.  Formal excavations began in 1954, but have since petered out.  There are just so very many archaeological sites in India that the authorities are hard pressed to give just consideration to even a small percentage of them.

 
     Lothal shared all the cultural aspects, apparently, of all the other Meluhan cities.  They were highly organized.  Their streets and buildings were made by a master plan, not haphazardly as in almost every other culture.  

Their bricks were kiln hardened and standardized in proportion (1 x 2 x 4).  One size was for houses and another size for city walls, so that one kiln could supply many different projects.  Workers could build quickly and efficiently, knowing the size of their materials in advance.

Lothal developed signature techniques in bead making, jewelry making and metallurgy that are still unimproved today, over 5,000 years later. Their distinctive trade goods have been found all over Africa, the Middle East and western Asia.  In addition, graves have been found in Lothal, mixed with the Lothalian's graves, which contained people from the Mediterranean and the Mesopotamian region.  Obviously, these were traders and travelers that met their demise in a far-flung place. 

 

Apparently following the traditions that later groups in India espoused, they did not relegate anything really important to writing, but kept it in living memory.  This would include their history or any great works of literature – stories, songs, or religious works.  Since they were great crafts people, traders and business folk, one must assume that they had astounding memories and mental capabilities, that kept track of their accounts and business dealings.

The only examples that we have of their writing is on the numerous soap stone or gem stone seals, which were also included in the list of their signature trade goods.  Seals, in general, were used throughout the ancient world.  They were used to either stamp or roll a distinctive impression, in wet clay, wax, or by impressing ink on paper, marking one’s personal possessions, or trade marking one’s supplies or products.  They were used everywhere that we would use a signature or engraving today.

A close-up view of a Meluhan seal

More Meluhan seals

Various Meluhan seals

Lothal also possessed master hydrologists and hydraulic engineers, as did the rest of the Meluhan communities.  Living on a coast and a river invariably brought changing water levels throughout the year.  The Lothalian civic planners used a complex system of brick lined drains for both sewage (each building had access to a sewer for sanitation) and for draining excess water.  These were backed up by a sophisticated system of ditches and channels, along with 3-6 foot tall raised brick platforms for each block of 20-30 buildings, that kept water from being a problem in the town.

In addition, Lothal was, as mentioned, an entrepôt – a trade depot and a port.  It served several major overland trade routes.  Ships could also go up several streams to service other communities and they could turn around and go out to sea, if desired. 

Then we come to the unique feature about Lothal that most interests us in our studies.  The two banes of every port, especially those located on the mouth of a river are flooding and silt.  Flooding is easily understandable. Tides, floods and monsoons move water levels unpredictably and sometimes catastrophically.  We have seen that the Lothalians used advanced engineering to deal with these variables.

Secondly, silt, dirt and debris washed downstream from the river, slowly but surely will choke or fill up any water channel.  Any port of antiquity is no longer near the water, due to silt build up, unless it has been the benefactor of enormous engineering efforts to clean out the silt accumulations.  Modern ports employ gigantic dredges on a regular basis, just to keep channels open in their waterways and to prevent ships from running aground in the mud or sand.

     The engineers of Lothal, conversely, by building their dock to one side of the stream of the river, employed the flow of the river to suck out and wash away any accumulations of sand or mud, keeping the precisely plumbed brickwork docks usable without on-going maintenance. All the construction was made of fire dried bricks, bound together with lime and sand mortar.  The bricks are still intact after 4000 years as is the mortar bond.  Not even the Romans built that well.

In addition, a sophisticated water lock on one side of the dock made sure that there was sufficient water to float boats at low tide and a sluice kept the docks from being submerged at high tide.

The Lothalians were so effective in their work that ships were able to move in and out of the channels and the dock area up until the late 1800’s – a period of some 5,000 years without any hand to maintain it.  This is something modern port authorities cannot do.

        In conclusion, once again, we have a very ancient people, lost in the mists of time, death and destruction, who have obviously advanced capabilities.  They have left behind evidences of highly advanced technical skill, cultural complexity, cultural depth and mental ability that we either can barely reproduce or cannot fathom, even with today’s high technology.

        Folks, the evidence is clear, just like the Bible shows us.  We are DE-volving, not E-volving.

WARNING!!

     The truth is there.  You just have to see it.

     This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.  

     It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently created an advanced civilization that exceeds our own.  It was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 4,500 years trying to preserve or re-build that civilization.  I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored, discredited or suppressed by people who have an opposing agenda.

     Nothing that you see on this blog is original.  Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books.  I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice.  That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

     The point is, nothing here is made up.  The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in its readily discernible pattern. 

      You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.