New laboratory analysis confirmed that Bosnia’s Sun Pyramid is made out of artificial concrete

Recent results from independent laboratory analysis achieved by Italy’s Polytechnic University of Turin (Politecnico di Torino – POLITO) confirmed that the samples of sandstone and conglomerate blocks taken last summer at Bosnia’s Sun Pyramid is ancient concrete made with artificially (man-made) aggregates.

In the new analysis made by the Chemistry Department of the POLITO both chemical and diffractometry analysis confirmed that the concrete material consists in inert material with a binding material that seems similar to Roman concrete.

The laboratory analysis also revealed that the sandstone samples collected from the covering of the concrete layers (the outer casing) of Bosnia's Sun Pyramid have the same composition of the concrete itself. The only difference consists in the inert material used for its manufacturing which results much smaller (fine-grained).

Photo: Artifical conglomerate blocks at Visocica placed one above another

Photo: Fine sandstone casing at Visocica, detailPhoto: Concrete layers composing the pyramid walls, detail

The report also says that the binding aggregates of the concrete (incl. the sandstone---casing) seem to be made by high temperature heating of clay (kaolinite and muscovite) and limestone materials (dolomite and calcite) which is typical for the chemical binding process that transforms those minerals into concrete-like binding material.

Photo: Sandal/shoe footprint left in the concrete material by ancient pyramid builders

After the Kemal Kapetanovic Institute from the University in Zenica and the French Geopolymer Institute leaded by Prof. Dr. Joseph Davidovits, another independent and renown institution confirmed the use of artifical  materials for the construction of the Bosnian pyramids.

Information about the chemical analysis

From: merlino@inrete.it

To: osmanagic@msn.com

Subject: Result of the chemical analysis of concrete from the pyramid of the Sun

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:59:16 +0100

Dear Dr Osmanagich,

Thanks for the latest news you sent us.

I would like to communicate to you a news that you may find interesting. During our visit to Visoko our team collected some sample of concrete and sandstone from the pyramid of the Sun. We brought them to the Chemistry Dept. of the Politecnico of Turin for analysis. In this dept. there is a laboratory specialized in construction materials analysis. The result of the chemical analysis and of the diffractometry analysis confirm that both the concrete and the sandstone are artificial manmade construction materials. The concrete consists in inert material with a binding material that the report states seems to be made "in a similar way of the one that the ancient Romans used to follow to make their concrete-like material". The "sandstone" that we collected from the covering of the concrete layers on the pyramid of the Sun has the same composition of the concrete itself only the inert material is smaller. The report continues saying that the binding part of the concrete (and "sandstone") seems to be made by high temperature heating of clay (kaolinite and muscovite) and limestone materials (dolomite and calcite) that transforms them into a concrete-like binding material. This report confirms your research and we thought you may find it interesting.

Congratulations for you work.

Best regards

Giancarlo Barbadoro

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From: nswelim@internetegypt.com

To: osmanagic@msn.com

Subject: RE: Result of the chemical analysis of concrete from the pyramid of the Sun

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:10:03 +0200

Dear Dr. Semir: This result being conformed, is the beginning of important channels of research: the sources of these minerals, the transportation, where were they processed in such quantities, methods of processing, what fuel, by whom, and when. We are eagerly waiting.

Nabil

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Subject: Re: Result of the chemical analysis of concrete from the pyramid of the Sun 

From: joseph@davidovits.info

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:28:17 +0100

To: osmanagic@msn.com

Bonjour Sam,

This is good news. It confirms my electron microscopical investigation sent on April 2009.

Au revoir,

Joseph

ABOUT POLITO

The Polytechnic University of Turin is an engineering university based in northern Italy. It has been established in 1859 and is Italy’s oldest and most renown university in the field of Architecture and Engineering. The university is well-known in Europe and all over the world. According to ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ published by Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in engineering, technology and computer science fields, the Polytechnic University of Turin ranks among Top 50 universities in the world and at rank 1 in Italy.

Photo: The Valentino Castle

The POLITO has strong research links with local and international companies, reaching about 700 yearly research contracts with firms such as Thales Alenia Space, Motorola, Compaq, Ferrari, Fiat, General Motors, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia etc. (to cite few).

Thanks to the POLITO the construction techniques of the ancient Egyptians are now a little less mysterious

Photo: Model machine shows how Egyptians built the Pyramids as told by Herodotus

Through a simulation with a model machine built by the “Politecnico di Torino”, the first of its kind in the world, experts in construction techniques have shown that is possible with the use of rope wound around a drum and twisting of the cables to haul huge blocks of granite, heavy up to ten tons, up through a long tunnel.

Not only that, just the strength of one man is enough to carry any huge block along the tunnel. For the construction of the pyramid of Khufu, heavy blocks up to 45 tons could be maneuvered with the strength of just three or four men.

The machine that Herodotus mentions truly existed, according to this experiment, and was rebuilt in scale and used for the first time in a simulation in the department of structural and geotechnical engineering, in collaboration with Iveco, which has funded part of the experiment.

Ten meters long, the modern model of the machine is capable of moving up to five tons. This version was submitted to the Scientific Committee of the Foundation of the Egyptian Museum and experts, during the national conference of “Egyptology and Papyrology”.

Sources: LA REPUBBLICA 2009/06

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Photo: Giant Footprint in Kadarici, BiH

A trip into an alternative human past

Imagine walking through a wetland or along a lake shore and having someone stumble on your footprints thousands of years from now. That's just what happened last summer on a hillcrest in Bosnia few kilometers from Visoko.

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Photo: View onto Visocica

The town of Visoko exited out of international oblivion in summer 2005 when Semir Osmanagic, a Bosnian-born specialist in pyramids who lives in Houston, has claimed to have discovered not only Europe’s first pyramids, but also world’s largest pyramidal complex ever built on the face of the planet. As in any other genuine and revolutionary discovery in the history of science, the situation precipitated and controversy broke out.

The excuse used by the opponents of the Bosnian pyramid project in order to stop the excavation works at Visocica, today known as the Bosnian pyramid of the sun, was their fictitious concern that amateurish excavation methods carried out by the Foundation APBPS would cause unrecoverable damage to Bosnia’s valuable sites, with particular reference to Visoko’s medieval town, also known as old fort Visoki. It is important to underline that the excavations at Visocica were carried out hundred of meters away from the medieval town. The scientific crusade to stop the excavation project of world’s highest pyramid involved national and foreign experts in the field of Archaeology, complaisant journalists and debunkers. In 2007, BiH’s Commission To Preserve National Monuments used the same false pretext to extend the protected zone of old fort Visoki for 98 times in order to stop the excavations at Visocica. The same year began the so called “restoration work” of the medieval town. In 2008, due to unprofessional excavations carried out by the staff of Zemaljski Muzej in Sarajevo significant damages occurred in important sections of the medieval fortress. Since then the situation didn’t changed. None of the archaeologists responsible for the preservation of the medieval fortress came back to inspect the site, neither anyone of the national and international opponents of the Bosnian pyramid project has raised his voice against this cultural tragedy. They all keep silence, and their guilty silence endured till today.

At the beginning of 2009, people of the The Commission To Preserve National Monuments and BiH’s Ministry of Culture and Sports leaded by Minister Gavrilo Grahovac informed the Bosnian public through national newspapers that they would invest significant amount of money for the restoration project of the medieval fortress and that restoration work would proceed the same year.

But did it happen? No, of course not!

But what happens is that empty political promises hardly tackle Bosnia’s oldest medieval town. Another harsh Bosnian winter is knocking at the door, and almost every section of the site has been left unprotected from the weather elements. The deliberate destruction and vanishing of Bosnia’s oldest medieval town continues.

Damage however, was not limited just to archaeological remains dating to the medieval period. Last summer, accidental findings made by local villagers and tourists who visited the old town ruins revealed archaeological evidence far older than those belonging to the medieval period. Ceramic fragments dating back to the Neolithic period (Photographs A, B) were found inside discarded piles of debris left behind by archaeologists of the Zemaljski Muzej. These pieces of artifacts were thrown away together with debris (rocks and soil) coming from the lowest sections of the medieval fortress. According to some experts who have examined the area, the whole medieval site sits on archaeological layers dating back over 5,000 years.

PHOTO APHOTO BPhoto: debris piles at Visocica

The questions arises:

Are opponent-archaeologists frightened of digging a little deeper at Visocica?

Could that be one of the reasons why they never came back?

SUMMARY OF REPORTS: 

Project Opponents Havoc Visoko

The Tragedy of Old Fort Visoki

Visoki: Old and New Damages

Old Fort Visoki -- A Vanishing Treasure -- GALLERY

PROJECT NAME: International Summer Camp for Volunteers: „Bosnian Pyramids 2010"

INVESTOR AND ORGANIZER: Non-profit NGO „Archaeological park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun" Foundation, registered for archaeological research and cultural heritage protection by the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia-Herzegovina

PARTNER: Town of Visoko, NGO „Citizen's Forum" Visoko, Tourism Board of regional Government from Zenica

DESCRIPTION: Foundation will organize first International Summer Camp in Bosnia after the war (1992-1995)

LOCATIONS: (1) Archaeological locations of the Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids where the permmits have been issued: foothill of the northern side of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun, western sections of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon, tunnel that will lead in the center of the tumulus in Vratnica, KTK tunnels and Ravne tunnels; (2) Other sections important for the touristic infrastructure (access to the pyramid sites, stairways, wooden handrails, parking lots, etc.)

GOALS: (1) Speed up the archaeological work; (2) Improve the touristic infrastructure in order to get it rerady for the archaeological tourism

DURATION: Summer camp will start on June 1, 2010 and will end on September 30, 2010 (122 days) SHIFTS: There will be four shifts: June 1 - June 30, July 1 - July 31, August 1 - August 31, September 1 - September 30

NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS: It will be up to 200 volunteers per shift. Summer Camp will be open for volunteers who want to come for a less than 30 days (for example, weekend, one week, 10 days, etc.)

WHERE THE VOLONTEERS WILL BE COMING FROM: Judging the interest already shown, the volunteers will be coming from several countries: Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Malaysia, Bosnia, Holland, etc. AGE: Minimum age is 18 years.

SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP: General manager dr. Sam Osmanagich, leading archaeologist M.Sc. Mislav Hollos (Croatia);

SCIENTIFIC BOARD: Egyptologist dr. Nabil Swelim (Egypt), archaeologist dr. Mona Haggag (Egypt), chemical engineer dr. Muhamed Pasic (Bosnia), geophysicist dr. Oleg Khavroshkin (Russia), historian dr. Hassan Saady (Egypt).

SUMMER CAMP MANAGEMENT: Experienced Summer Camp leader and Advisory Board

ACCOMMODATION: Army baracks in Visoko (one building and several tents).

APPLICATIONS: Starting December 1st, 2009 via e-mail: info@piramidasunca.ba

Source: www.piramidasunca.ba

Gorani: Sacrificial Altar

“And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded.”

Deu 17:3

Animal and human sacrificing rituals have been being performed at pyramids across the globe throughout history. Bloody offerings have taken place at the steps, on the steps and even inside pyramids for thousand of years... 

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