PYRAMID FOUND IN BOSNIA...

This is a weird story. Turns out they've found what looks to be a step-pyramid (like South American pyramids, not like the Egyptian ones) in Bosnia--that's Europe to those of you who attended American public schools as a child :)

If true, this is an amazing find but here's the weird part: I don't see the proof. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/19/AR2006041902268.html|An April 20, 2006 article] at WashingtonPost.Com has the headline "Experts Find Evidence of Bosnia Pyramid" but when you read [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0420_060420_pyramid.html|an article] about the discovery at NationalGeographic.Com, it reports:

Amateur archaeologist Semir Osmanagic recently announced that he has uncovered proof that a four-sided hill in the town of Visoko, Bosnia, is an ancient manmade structure.

So, he's an "amateur" archaeologist? Back over at that WaPo article, they say:

Researchers on Wednesday unearthed geometrically cut stone slabs that they said could form part of the sloping surface of what they believe is an ancient pyramid lying beneath a huge hill.

Archaeologists and other experts began digging at this central Bosnian town last week to explore the team leader's theory that the 2,120-foot hill covers a step pyramid, which would be the first ever found in Europe.

"These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid," Semir Osmanagic, a Bosnian archaeologist who studied the pyramids of Latin America for 15 years, said of the stonework found Wednesday.

So, he's now a researcher with 15 years experience studying the pyramids of Latin America. I wish I could know for sure.

On top of that, both articles talk about these cube-shaped stones that Osmanagic uncovered but what the pictures in both articles show does not look like giant blocks to me. So, I'm thinking, as cool as this announcement is, it's probably a little premature. Although, both articles report on a tunnel that seems to run between the pyramid and what they believe are two other pyramids in the same area. The tunnel they say is definitely man-made but neither article provides pics.

I am still astounded at how few pictures show up in articles on the web--especially with stories like this one.

Ah, the state of journalism today. A pyramid is found that, according to the researchers that found it, could be as old as 12,000 years and there's completely inadequate media coverage.