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Visoki: “They came, destroyed, and left, but never came back.” Posted on Dec 28, 2009 by admin
  
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.
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
Source: Bosnian-Pyramid.com
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