Gamma spectrometry analysis of soil and rock samples from the hypothetical complex of the Bosnian pyramids

In Europe, officially until now, there have not existed pyramids built by ancient civilisations. In central Bosnia and Herzegovina, about 30 kilometres north from Sarajevo, there are suspected stone pyramids of monumental proportions. The hypothesis that Visocica Hill, having a noticeable pyramidal shape and rising over the town of Visoko, hides inside itself a step pyramid was developed by Semir Osmanagic, a brilliant Bosnian explorer and expert in pyramidal structures which he studied at locations around the world. Aiming to confirm this hypothesis, intensive researches were carried out at the sites of Visoko town and its vicinity in 2005 and 2006, through combination of classic geo-archeological methods and high-technology methods (satellite imagery, thermal analysis, georadar, seismic and electromagnetic methods, 3D topographic and geodetic high-resolution maps). Tens of world experts (including the leading Egyptian archeologists) undoubtedly confirmed that central B&H hides extraordinary important archeological site on a world scale. The idea of the researches shown in this paper is to determine with nuclear measuring methods whether the regular geometric stone blocks, some weighting over 25 tons, which were excavated at this site, originated from natural geologic processes or these are phenomena made by human hands. For that purpose samples were taken for analysis from stone blocks, soil, as well as from soil and stone structures in the network of underground corridors. In this paper we presented results of gamma spectrometry analysis of these samples, obtained with HPGe detectors.