STONE BLOCKS in GINJE
a new page to be written in Bosnian history?
article by Gabriela Lukacs, M.sc. www.european-pyramids.eu
Just 4 km south of Visoko there is a small village called Ginje.
On the main road through this village one passes a gorgeous villa, built recently by a Bosnian-Italian gentleman.
What is so special about this villa – except its amazing size and elegance – is
the stone heap on the premise
There are
- numerous sandstone and breccia blocks
- of remarkable size (average 1,5m x1m x 70cm),
- shaped to square or rectangular blocks,
- dug out under the soil of the hill where the villa was built,
- indicating that there are several layers of stone blocks still uncovered,
- each block weighing approx. 2-3 tons (specific weight of sandstone 2,7)
And those blocks on the premise are not the only ones. Some blocks are still clearly visible sticking out of the soil. 10 (ten) truckloads of sandstone blocks were carried off to a garbage dump, each load weighing 40 tons!
These stones indicate that there are many more still under the soil of the hill behind the villa. According to eyewitness reports the villa should have been dug deeper into the hill, but could not because they encountered another layer of stone blocks behind the layer that was taken out before. It became too costly to remove all the blocks.
The hill itself appears being man shaped. The stones could have been the cover or layer of the hill before the soil covered it or before someone covered it with meters of soil?
The owner’s mother, who lives next door, told us that they also found a grave under the soil with bones they buried again and a tombstone (stecak). This tombstone can still be seen at the premise among the heap of sandstone blocks.
We suggest to retrieve at least the stecak as a religious and historical artefact. The existence of a grave under the hill is another historical evidence.
The stone blocks of the Ginje villa add another piece to the “unknown” early history of Bosnia. It is the undeniable proof for human activity. Someone was shaping hills and covering them with precisely cut stone blocks.
OUR CONCLUSION
- There is at least one maybe more artificial or shaped hills in Ginje.
- There are precisely cut stone blocks of unknown origin that indicate human activity in historical times.
- The pattern of the Bosnian pyramids is slowly unfolding with every new find of an artificial hill of unknown origin, purpose and time.
Discovered by Faris Licina, Sarajevo. Subsequent visit to Ginje on 28/8/2008 by “Ginje Study Group” (Dr.Aly Barakat, Dr.Abu Bakr Moussa, Nenad Djurcevic, Faris Licina, Maxim Yakovenko, Gabriela Lukacs+family)
Stecak and huge sandstone blocks, shaped and cut
