Summer excavations at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mt. Visocica yielded results, but not the kind an entrepreneur turned amateur archaeologist was looking for. Semir Osmanagic, a US businessman of BiH origin, has invested large amounts of his own money in a personal quest to unearth what he says are Europe's first pyramids. His claims have not yet been corroborated. Instead, an archeological team said over the summer that it has unearthed significant artefacts from a more recent era. These include eight pieces of Gothic architectural carvings and parts of glass vials dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, imported from Venice and principalities of today's Germany, as well as numerouspieces of ceramic.
They have also found 20 silver objects dating from the 15th-century. "This demonstrates that much attention was devoted to the town where the medieval Bosnian kings resided from time to time," team leader Lidija Fekeza told the media. "Once we remove the ... vegetation from the top of Mt. Visocica, we will finally see how this medieval Bosnian locality used to look," she added. Not everyone welcomes the research. On August 7th, vandals suspected of political opposition to the study of medieval Bosnian statehood flung a stone slab into a well of the old fortress. References to the medieval town of Visoki, on top of Mt. Visocica, appeared in writing for the first time in 1355; however, archaeologists believe its construction dates back as early as the 12th century. They consider it,along with the ancient royal town of Bobovac in central Bosnia, one of the most significant historical finds in BiH. According to the archaeologists, Visoki played a significant role in the medieval Bosnian state. Officials penned some landmark documents in this town-fortress, most pertaining to trade deals of the old Bosnian state with the then-existing Dubrovnik Republic. BiH scholars have demanded that the government cancel permits for digging atop Mt. Visocica issued to Osmanagic, the self-proclaimed archaeologist.
A number of rare relics have been unearthed in the Gobi Desert including statues, art, manuscripts and the personal belongings of a Buddhist master. The artefacts date back to the 1930"s when many monasteries were looted and destroyed."Rare Buddhist treasures, not seen for more than 70 years, have been unearthed in the Gobi Desert.The historic artefacts were buried in the 1930s during Mongolia"s Communist purge, when hundreds of monasteries were looted and destroyed."
Some Leavenworth residents have been unknowingly walking around above an underground city, and no one seems to know who created it or why. Windows, doors and narrow paths beneath a title company at South Fourth and Delaware streets lead to storefronts stretching several city blocks and perhaps beyond. There are also several vaults around town. Some of have them been used forbreweries."They were stores of some type.
We just don't know what they were selling, who was running them," said Jennifer Lemons, who works at the title company. Some speculate the underground town was created in the 1800s and could have been used during slavery or for fugitives."We know that it was pretty secretive, whatever it was that was down here, because not too many people know anything about it," Lemons said. Katy Ryan is the editor for LV Magazine and has been researching the mysteries below.
"You know,
you just think of the underground as such a dark, spooky place, but to
thinkthat this could have maybe been some kind of vibrant economic
center is just kind of baffling really," Ryan said.
Construction workers are in the middle of a streetscape project, and some worry the history will be erased.
"I think it would just be kind of tragic if no one knew what it was or if no one cared," Lemons said.
Some people who've lived in
Leavenworth their entire lives don't know anything about the
underground city, and those who do don't know the historical
significance.
Glastonbury Tor is a place of legend, intrigue and mystery; a conical hill in the Somerset landscape it has been the subject of many tales ranging from it being the entrance to the Underworld to a global energy point ofcrossing ley lines."The Tor at Glastonbury is a natural 520’ conical hill set in the Somerset landscape, its legends and accolades are many ranging from a faerie hill, the Entrance to the Underworld of King Gwyn Ap Nudd, a global energy point where ley lines cross, and tales of people beingsuddenly levitating whilst up there, as sworn by a group of Buddhist monks in 1969."
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Summer excavations at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mt. Visocica yielded results, but not the kind an entrepreneur turned amateur archaeologist was looking for. Semir Osmanagic, a US businessman of BiH origin, has invested large amounts of his own money in a personal quest to unearth what he says are Europe's first pyramids. His claims have not yet been corroborated. Instead, an archeological team said over the summer that it has unearthed significant artefacts from a more recent era. These include eight pieces of Gothic architectural carvings and parts of glass vials dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, imported from Venice and principalities of today's Germany, as well as numerouspieces of ceramic. 
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