User:Andrewa/Bosnian pyramids

Is it a hoax?

 * http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mystery-of-bosnias-ancient-pyramids-148990462/?no-ist Smithsonian, uncommital many experts remain dubious
 * http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp203h-fs13/2013/11/19/bosnian-pyramids/ undergraduate student paper
 * http://www.academia.edu/196404/Contextualising_Alternative_Archaeology_Socio-Politics_and_Approaches assumes it's a fraud, and explores why it's successful Archaeologist Richard Carlton reflects the despairing attitude of many academics when he says, “Support of this raft of nonsense has only increased. I have no idea what to do other than to continue to present reasonably argued opposition”
 * http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes/ note the URL, and it lists this
 * http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/ Too bad that it is not a credible story at all. In fact, it is impossible. Who is the "archaeologist" who has taken the media for a ride? Why did the media not check the story more carefully? ARCHAEOLOGY will address these questions in depth in our next issue, July/August, but for now let's at least put the lie to the claims emanating from Visoko, the town 20 miles northwest of Sarajevo where the "Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun" is located.
 * http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/ Frenzied reporting of supposed pyramids in the Balkans ignores the truth and embraces the fantastic.
 * http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/update.html geologist Aly Abd Alla Barakat, who was said to be from the Egyptian Mineral Resource Authority. According to the stories, Barakat declared that the hill was indeed a pyramid, though a "primitive" one. Was Barakat there officially?
 * http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/zahi_hawass.pdf letter from Egyptian authorities answering the above - no
 * http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2006/05/pyramid-bosnia-1_2.html page 2 of National Geographic article quotes several authorities as debunking the story