VisoÄica hill
Visočica ( [ ʋisɔtʃitsa ] ), also Brdo degrees ( [ br̩dɔ ɡrad ], "Hill City ") is a 767 m high mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mountain seems to have made a pyramid-like symmetry of different points and was therefore known as one of the Bosnian Pyramids, the buildings should be of a past civilization after a rejected by most scientists theory.
Location
The forested hill is about 500 meters south of the outskirts of Visoko, about 20 kilometers northwest of Sarajevo. The Visočica rises about 200 meters to their surrounding countryside and has particularly to the northeast and northwest on conspicuous ridges, giving it a pyramid- like appearance.
Geology
The Visočica is breccia, a sedimentary rock that has been deposited here as rest a 7 million- year-old lake and was later pushed into the air. The rock forms platy and angular lumps so total also arises the square shape of the hill.
History
In the Neolithic was the environment of the hill home to the Butmir culture that may also leave the Visočica tracks. Furthermore, on the mountain suspects an ancient necropolis, engraved stones could indicate that a mentioned in Byzantine texts city lay here. Because of excavations of the followers of the pyramid theory but a scientific study of the hill and there discovered artifacts is hardly possible.
In the Middle Ages the mountain was the center of the former Bosnian capital Visoko, where the name Brdo degree (often short degrees) stirring. The name Visočica was only coined in the 1960s after the first photogrammetric images of the environment by the Yugoslav army.
Visočica and the " Bosnian pyramids "
The mountain was told 2005 a significant publicity through the spread of the author and businessman Semir Osmanagić theory, the mountain and some other hills are not natural entities but built by human pyramids. Therefore, the
Visočica and the hill became known as the so-called pyramids in Visoko. Investigations of international archaeologists came to the conclusion that the " pyramids " natural structures. As part of the " research " led to extensive excavations on the flanks of the mountain. It transitions were found inside the hill that can be seen from the pyramid theorists as confirmation of their hypotheses, however, are considered by scientists to be the remains of old mines. Web Links