29 April 2010
Dear Mister Osmanagic,
It appears that buying a forth-and-back ticket from the south of Holland to Amsterdam was worth my time and money after all. Having been fascinated by the pyramids and any archeological site since childhood, the Bosnian excevations are very interesting.
For me, never having studied geology or archeology, the shape of the hill alone says it all. This is a pyramid. And a bloody big one as well! As you pointed out, nature, although it may be in it's power, never produces straight angles and lines. And if it does do so on a rare occasion, it never places these shapes in patterns across the landscape.
It is not possible. Nature doesn´t like to work all shaped, pattern like. Nature has it´s own beauty, but this hill cannot be counted among natures wonderfull works. Well, the vegetation on top perhaps.
What interested me was that after you finished your -more than convincing for me- lecture, their imediatly came remarks and questions that did not take into account all you had said in the 2 hours before. A very rude gesture in my opinion.
It is like you said. Many scientist and their followers today cannot think out of the frame. They cannot, and refuse to, understand that not everything can be like they think.
Me, personally, I have my own theory:
Let's suppose the Egyptians and Sumerians were not the first civilisations. Today, we think they are, because frankly we can't "look" into a deeper history as almost no traces of earlier civilisation have been uncovered.
But what if it is there, or was there? Do you think the Egyptians would have understood if they found structures thousands of years older than themselves? Perhaps, even in their time, these older buildings would have been meters deep in the sand. Let's assume they did find something. Would they understand the carvings and signs on it? No, probably not. They may have recorded what they have seen, but maybe that knowledge is lost today.
We can and will probably never know everything. Personally, I think there were great cultures before the Egyptians, Mayas, Sumerians and Chinese. Who are we to say full of arrogance: Human development is at it's peak today. Okay, some things simply are today. I can't imagine the ancients pulling up on the curb with their latest Hummer or BMW. Astrology, mathematics and other arts however could very well be far more advanced then we are today.
Anyway, thank you for your wonderfull lecture which I think is a real new insight into archeology. I sincerely hope that you and your team will be able to uncover what lies beneath Bosnia.
The best of luck,
Dirk Groenewoud
Netherland