I am a legitimate scientist who works at U. Penn. What you are seeing is what happens when someone who doesn’t have a Ph.D. in the proper discipline announces a discovery of any kind whatsoever. It is called and ad hominem attack. This type of attack is also quite popular with politicians as well.

If you read the complaints about this guy, you hear only that he is not a “legitimate” archeologist and/or that pyramids could not have been built 12,000 years ago. These “facts” are then used to claim that this guy’s works, claims, speculations, etc. have no value at all. None of these critics dispute any of the evidence, since none of them have actually visited the site.

As Bush likes to say: “I strongly disagree” with these critics. Give the guy a chance for crying out loud. He isn’t wasting taxpayer money like many “legitimate” researchers do.

This is a very interesting archeological site that has been sitting there unexplored by “legitimate” archeologists for centuries. It has the ruins of an old Roman fort on the top. That alone makes it interesting.

If this guy is full of beans about the hill actually being a pyramid that was built 12,000 years ago (he doesn’t actually say that – what he actually says is that it appears to be a man-made structure – that the evidence uncovered so far warrants further study) he will be thoroughly ridiculed in the coming months. It has four sides, each pointing to a cardinal direction, rises at a steep angle (steeper than most natural hills), has large stone slabs at this steep angle under shallow earth (it is not a dirt, clay, rock hill).

What I see is a little town in the middle of nowhere in Bosnia, which is enjoying a little economic boom time. If it turns out to be nothing more than a dirt hill with a fort on top, the town will sink back into obscurity. If it does turn out to be a pyramid built 12,000 years ago, that town will wish it was never discovered.

Thanks to this guy, we will find out for sure in the next few months. “Establishment” archeologists have already made up their minds – and I feel sorry for them, since they have that special misery that automatically accompanies a closed mind.

One last thing. He doesn’t say that it was built 12,000 years ago. He simply says that the area was occupied by humans – to at least 27,000 years ago. This period was a very dry time, since much more water was tied up as ice. England was connected to Europe by a land bridge.

I’m hoping the thing gets dated to 27.000 years BCE. I’m one of those scientists who actually is thrilled by new discoveries.