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The coverage of this slipshod investigation and this new, slipshod debunking is very widespread. What is needed is a geologist (Robert Schoch, for example) to take a look at this site. Schoch looked at Yoniguni and declared it natural in origin, even though some of the photos were compelling.

British Expert Nixes Bosnia Pyramid Claim
by Aida Cerkez-Robinson
AP
Professor Anthony Harding, who is president of the European Association of Archaeologists, visited Visocica hill and said the formation was natural... No pyramids are known in Europe, and there are no records of any ancient civilization on the continent ever attempting to build one... a number of local and international experts../ claim that at no time in Bosnia's history did the region have a civilization able to build monumental structures. They say the hill is simply a strange natural formation... Egyptian geologist Aly Abd Alla Barakat, who arrived in May to check on Osmanagic's claims said the structure is "man made" and worth investigating. "My opinion is that this is a type of pyramid, probably a primitive pyramid," said Barakat, a geologist from the Egyptian Mineral Resource Authority. However, Harding, who said he visited the site briefly on Thursday and looked at the same stone blocks Barakat said were man made, said on Friday they were a natural formation... Harding did not visit other sites in the area which Osmanagic and Barakat say are further evidence of the existence of pyramids in Bosnia, such as a tunnel leading to the top of Visocica or a stone pavement made of geometrically regular shaped pieces. Harding said that although he had not seen the stone pavement, by looking at photographs, "I would not believe it to be archaeological. It looks to me as a natural stone pavement." He did not visit the tunnel either. But Barakat, an expert in the stone blocks used to build ancient pyramids in Egypt, has recommended more experts visit the site. An archaeologist from Egypt is scheduled to visit the site this month... Mario Gerussi, the director of Osmanagic's team leading the excavations, said the team had not been informed of the timing of Harding's visit and that none of the staff at the site had seen him there. Harding specializes in the European Bronze Age, and has led excavations in Poland and the Czech Republic as well as in Britain.