Visočica

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Visočica
Visočica, bosnianska pyramída.jpg
height 767  m
location Visoko / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mountains Dinaric mountains
Coordinates 43 ° 58 '42 "  N , 18 ° 10' 40"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 58 '42 "  N , 18 ° 10' 40"  E
Visočica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Visočica
rock Breccia
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Visočica ([ʋisɔtʃitsa]), also Brdo Grad ([br̩dɔ ɡrad], "hill town") is a 767 m high mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The mountain has a pyramid-like shape from various points. Therefore, in 2005 the hypothesis was launched that it was one of the alleged Bosnian pyramids . This is rejected by archaeologists and geologists because they are natural rock formations.

Location and surroundings

The wooded hill is located about 500 meters south of the outskirts of Visoko, about 20 kilometers northwest of Sarajevo . The Visočica rises about 200 meters above its surrounding area and has conspicuous ridges, especially to the northeast and northwest, which give it a pyramid-like appearance.

geology

The Visočica consists of breccia , a sedimentary rock that was deposited here as the remainder of a 7 million year old lake and was later pushed up. The rock forms flat and angular chunks, which also creates the angular shape of the hill as a whole.

history

In the Neolithic , the area around the hill was home to the Butmir culture , which may have left traces on the Visočica. Furthermore, an ancient necropolis is suspected on the mountain , engraved stones could indicate that a city mentioned in Byzantine texts was located here. However, due to excavations carried out by supporters of the pyramid theory, a scientific investigation of the hill and the finds discovered there is hardly possible.

In the Middle Ages, the mountain was the center of the then Bosnian capital Visoko, which is where the name Brdo Grad (often short Grad ) comes from. The name Visočica was first coined by the Yugoslav army in the 1960s after the first photogrammetric recordings of the area.

Visočica and the "Bosnian Pyramids"

In 2005 the mountain became known through the author and builder Semir Osmanagić . He spread the theory that the mountain and a few other hills nearby were not natural structures, but rather pyramids built by humans . Archaeologists from different countries, however, came to the conclusion that these are natural structures. Osmanagić had extensive excavations carried out on the flanks of the mountain. Thereby corridors were found in the hill, which the pyramid theorists see as confirmation of their theories, but which scientists explain as the remains of old mines.

Web links

Commons : Visočica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Enver Buza: Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids - The Analyzes of the Landscape and Topography (PDF; 73 kB), June 2006, published: January 15, 2007, accessed on April 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d John Bohannon: Mad About Pyramids . In: Science . tape 313 , no. 5794 , September 22, 2006, p. 1718–1720 , doi : 10.1126 / science.313.5794.1718 ( johnbohannon.org [PDF; accessed November 25, 2011]).
  3. ^ Robert Schoch, Colette Dowell: Pyramid No More. In: Sub Rosa. No. 6, October 2006, pp. 6-9. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Anthony Harding: The great Bosnian pyramid scheme. ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: British Archeology . No. 92, Jan./Feb. 2007, accessed April 22, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archaeologyuk.org