The Good news is that one day we'll know the truth, but for now we just have to wait...
...the president of the European Association of Archaeologists said on Friday that he had visited the 700-foot (213-meter) hill and saw no evidence that it was human-made.
Speaking at a press conference in Sarajevo, Anthony Harding told reporters the pyramid-shaped hill was a natural phenomenon.
"My opinion and the opinion of my colleagues is what we saw was entirely geological in nature," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.
It has everything, a fascinating place I am now itching to visit. For example:
The Kilmartin Valley is an area of enormous archaeological significance. There are more than 350 ancient monuments within a six mile radius and 150 of those are prehistoric, including standing stones, cairns and chambered tombs, some of the relics dating back 5000 years.
Kilmartin seems remote – is remote, in the 21st century. But in megalithic times, this was as central as Glasgow or London today. In fact, it was the site of a capital – the true Scottish capital even.
It is even speculated that the infamous Stone of Destiny was used at Dunadd before going to Scone – and then onwards to Westminster Abbey and more recently Edinburgh Castle. In fact, Dunadd and the rock on which sits Edinburgh Castle all have something in common – something that is also shared by Dumbarton Rock Castle. All are geological anomalies: solitary hills rising from an otherwise relative plane.
In short, the whirlpool is a great event: these spinning cauldrons are formed where tides crash or sea water is forced into narrow vortices. The Corryvreckan is one of only seven major whirlpools in the world and the biggest and most dangerous in Europe. The Gulf of Corryvreckan is over 300 feet deep, but when the whirlpool is at full power, the depth of the water is less than a hundred feet. The particular cause of this awesome power is a subterranean spike, called An Cailleach, which causes the great Atlantic waves to form into a giant vortex and create the whirlpool.
SARAJEVO - An Egyptian geologist who has joined Bosnian researchers unearthing what are thought to be Europe's first pyramids believes they bear similar hallmarks to the ancient structures in his homeland, an official said.
Aly Abd Alla Barakat, of the Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority, believes large stone blocks found near Sarajevo were man-made and polished in the same way as the pyramids of Giza, said the Bosnian Pyramid Foundation's Mario Gerussi.
"Barakat has also found the presence of a special material linking the stone blocks which is identical to that used for pyramids in Giza," he added.
Barakat had extensive knowledge of the pyramids in Giza and had been recommended for the Bosnian mission by Zahi Hawass, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, said Gerussi.
Over the next month, he is to work with Bosnian experts at Visoko valley, some 30 kilometres north of Sarajevo, which is believed to be hiding three major pyramids.
Since the digging work began in mid-April on one of the three hills there believed contain pyramids, researchers have unearthed a number of large stone blocks.
Semir Osmanagic, a self-styled Bosnian explorer who initiated the work, says he believes the blocks are part of a pyramid's surface.
Previously, satellite images showed that the hills in the valley cooled a lot faster than their surroundings, proving the substance of the structures was less dense and therefore probably made by men.
Also, the structures are precisely aligned with the four points of the compass.
The excavation work at Visoko, led by the foundation of local archaeologists and volunteers, will last 200 days and is expected to cost some 125,000 euros (160,000 dollars).
While most Bosnians are hopeful the pyramids will be found, a group of the country's archaeologists and historians have dismissed Osmanagic's mission as a "farce."
Japanese enthusiasts recently released new aerial photographs of figures etched in the ground of the Nazca region...Some difficult to spot The Japanese, for example, needed several flights to identify their figures. Among their more striking images: what appears to be an animal with horns, measuring nearly 200 feet long.
The archaeologists made the discovery in the state of Amapa, in the far north of Brazil.
A total of 127 large blocks of stone were found driven into the ground on top of a hill. Well preserved and each weighing several tons, the stones were arranged upright and evenly spaced.
It is not yet known when the structure was built, but fragments of indigenous pottery found at the site are thought to be 2,000 years old.
What impressed researchers was the sophistication of the construction. The stones appear to have been laid out to help pinpoint the winter solstice, when the sun is at its lowest in the sky.
Archeologists said Wednesday they have discovered a massive 6th-century Indian pyramid beneath the site of a centuries-old re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ.
Built on a hillside by the mysterious Teotihuacan culture, the pyramid was abandoned almost 1,000 years before Catholics began re-enacting the crucifixion there in the 1800s, unaware they were celebrating one of the holiest moments of their faith on a site originally dedicated to gods of earth, wind and rain.
While residents around the hillside in Iztapalapa, on the east side of Mexico City, express pride at the discovery, it illustrates the difficulty of preserving the many layers of Mexican history: archaeologists have decided not to fully excavate the site so as to avoid disturbing the Christian rites.
Getting very little media outside of Bosnia, but it looks like a bona-fide pyramid has been discovered, complete with compass orientation. Hopefully it will soon be competely uncovered. More here
An investigation into this mysterious place, from someone who has actually just been there.
Read Part 1 today, with parts 2 & 3 to follow. Or subscribe for just $2.99 and read the entire (expanded) article now. Chris Maier is always worth reading. Follow the link below.
I've come across a web site which serves as a nice reminder of the ancient mysteries that can be found in the Pacific - plenty of pyramids and prehistoric remains, built not by the locals. JaneResture.com
Archimedes Spiral used earlier than previously thought
"A geometrical figure commonly attributed to Archimedes in 300 BC has been identified in Minoan wall paintings dated to over 1,000 years earlier." Could just be an artistic type experimenting, but given the accuracy, appears that mathematics and tools were used
link me2012, February 25, 2006 at 12:03:00 AM AEDT
Tutankhamen teaches scientists a lesson
There is no record of white wine in Egypt until the 3rd century AD, and yet 1600 years prior to then, teenage king Tutankhamen stashed a few bottles of it in his tomb.
This is typical of the problems of modern science, they presume something didn't happen or exist until the evidence turns up.
China: Pyramid-like Buildings found in Fuxian Lake
Chinese researchers have found ancient buildings similar to Mayan pyramids under Fuxian Lake in southern China’s Yunnan province.
Gengwei, a professional diver, told reporters on December 19th, 2005, that images from sonar scans showed that a large relic covering at least 2.4 square kilometers sits underwater in Fuxian Lake.
He said eight main buildings were found all under the water, including a round building and two large high buildings with floors that liken to the Mayan pyramids of Latin America.
The round one is similar to a colosseum in form, with a 37 meter wide base and a gap to the northeast.
One of the large, high buildings has three floors, a 60 meter wide base and lots of small steps linking the floors. Another is even larger, with a 63 meter wide base standing five floors and a total 21 meters high.
A 300 meter long and 5 to 7 meter wide rock road connects the two buildings.
The complex, located in present-day southern Yunnan province, is believed to be from an ancient civilization dating back to the Qin and Han dynasties, approximately 2,000 years ago.
Wait and see... often such claims are not so amazing when the evidence is finally provided.
An ancient map could prove that the Chinese visited the Americas 60 years before Columbus, and therefore supporting the theories of researcher Gavin Menzies
Meanwhile, some 1,000-year-old Viking teeth feature chiselled grooves that they probably copied from American Indians.
It was okay for a set of footprints to prove that mankind arrived in the Americas 40,000 years ago instead of just 10,000. But now that argon dating reveals the rocks are 1.3 million years old, orthodox scientists have determined that they aren't human footprints after all (because they couldn't be, could they?).
The article does not offer up any alternative ownwer of the footprints.
This is now my equal favourite solution, alongside the Antarctica one of the Flem-Aths.
Atlantis the continent = South America (right direction from the Strait of Gibraltar, but perhaps a little too big?)
Atlantis the capital city = sunken city in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Given all the amazing stuctures nearby, and how well it fits with Plato's descriptions, this is a very neat solution. His book is called "Atlantis: The Andes Solution"
Aside from all the deductions claiming that the brewers were women, and that they had a big ritual before burning the brewery and leaving it... I think it's important to keep in mind that alcohol might have been very important thousands of years ago in the Americas. Perhaps Machu Picchu was a brewery too?
“Chicha, which is often made from maize, was at the heart of this culture, and this is one of the oldest and largest pre-Inca breweries ever discovered in the Americas,” said Patrick Ryan Williams of the Field Museum in Chicago.
“Our analyses indicate that this specialty brew was a high-class affair. Corn and Peruvian pepper-tree berries were used to make the beer, which was drunk from elaborate beakers up to half a gallon in volume.”
The outpost was partially burned down upon its evacuation, Ryan and colleagues say.
Chicha was brewed by a team of select, high-status women because it was so important to the Wari, according to the researchers. They concluded this from the many elegant metal shawl pins found in the three-room brewery, which were absent elsewhere in the extensive ruins.
The brewmistresses were probably chosen for their beauty or nobility, the archaeologists said.
A parapegma was a stone tablet with movable pegs and an inscription to indicate the approximate correspondence between, for example, the rising of a particular star and the civil date. Because the calendar had to be changed regularly to keep the civil calendar in phase with the astronomical one, the parapegma had movable pegs which could be adjusted as necessary.
But what is interesting is the possibility of the same thing occuring in Ecuador before contact with the west!
