We have had to wait until October 2005 to realise that the 213m high Visočica hill in Bosnia was actually an ancient man-made pyramid, part of the so-called Bosnian pyramids. Bosnian-American author Semir Osmanagić has suggested that these Bosnian pyramids could have been constructed as early as 12,000 BCE, but most probably in a period ranging from 12,000 BCE to 500 BCE.
The complex would have comported 3 pyramids, the 220m high Sun Pyramid (one third taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza), as well as a smaller Moon Pyramid and (Bosnian) Dragon Pyramid.
Excavations are still under way and are expected to be completed for 2012, by which time we should know more about the actual age and function of these remarkable monuments. Agriculture came to Europe from the Middle East and Anatolia about 9,000 years ago. It first spread to South-Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Greece, and the rest of the Balkans), so Bosnia was among the earliest argicultural society in Europe (around 7000 BCE), before Italy. This would make it unlikely that the pyramids were built before 7,000 BCE. The absence of mention by the Romans and Greeks would mean that it was probably not used anymore by 1,000 BCE. That still leaves a timespan of 6,000 years...
History books may soon be teaching that the greatest pyramid on earth was not that of Cheops, in Giza in Egypt, but that of Visočica in Bosnia.
The complex would have comported 3 pyramids, the 220m high Sun Pyramid (one third taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza), as well as a smaller Moon Pyramid and (Bosnian) Dragon Pyramid.
Excavations are still under way and are expected to be completed for 2012, by which time we should know more about the actual age and function of these remarkable monuments. Agriculture came to Europe from the Middle East and Anatolia about 9,000 years ago. It first spread to South-Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Greece, and the rest of the Balkans), so Bosnia was among the earliest argicultural society in Europe (around 7000 BCE), before Italy. This would make it unlikely that the pyramids were built before 7,000 BCE. The absence of mention by the Romans and Greeks would mean that it was probably not used anymore by 1,000 BCE. That still leaves a timespan of 6,000 years...
History books may soon be teaching that the greatest pyramid on earth was not that of Cheops, in Giza in Egypt, but that of Visočica in Bosnia.