Is this the Biggest Scam in Bosnia?

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  • čas přidán 5. 12. 2023
  • The Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun - Is it the oldest pyramid in the world or one mans monumental lie?
    Join me as we hike to the top of an hour outside of Sarajevo and make a friend who I really think you're going to like.
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Komentáře • 118

  • @MrSarajevofresh
    @MrSarajevofresh Před 7 měsíci +4

    No one knows for sure if this is a pyramid. One thing is certain, you came unprepared and with your hidden doubts. First of all, Semir Osmanagić is a scientist with degrees from prestigious American universities. He became a businessman only by starting the archaeological park of the Bosnian Pyramids.
    The only way to solve this mystery is the scientific method, not anyone's gut feeling whether or not they believe in the existence of paramids.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci +1

      We will see I guess. I enjoyed visiting and that's good enough for me

    • @kbbk444
      @kbbk444 Před 3 měsíci

      No, he is not scientist, and don't have degree in any American university. Also you can see he has degree in economics and doctorate in political science, and economics are true reason of this scam. It is a scam and you know it.

    • @inigo9000
      @inigo9000 Před 2 měsíci

      It simply issen't a pyramid and what you're saying is the opposite from the truth , he was a wealthy bussinesman who has a love for pseudo-science(fiction) and only got a degree later to come over like a scientist, that degree being sociology so in no way even connected to the subject

  • @user-wm2jv2vg4x
    @user-wm2jv2vg4x Před 8 měsíci +5

    I loved that you went up the hardest path with Honeybun and then found an easier path down and could smile about it - great episode Matthew.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      If I can't smile about it then I'm doomed

  • @user-ne2zx3nd2k
    @user-ne2zx3nd2k Před 6 měsíci +1

    Yesland: is this your mountain ?
    Dog: bark !

  • @Kiwiminiguy
    @Kiwiminiguy Před 8 měsíci +4

    Cats, Honeybun, Beer & Bar … this has it all…! Really enjoyed this one mate. 🐕 🚶🏼‍♂️ ⛰️

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Thank you so much for watching and for the support! It was a good trip that I'm really glad I managed to make happen

  • @sherylw4599
    @sherylw4599 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Another ace video! My legs were burning just watching you :) and Honeybun was such a good helper! Thank you again for sharing your journeys

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci

      Thank YOU for coming along for the journey! I always appreciate it

  • @JeremyDgL
    @JeremyDgL Před 8 měsíci +6

    The border corgi was really cute. This is a literal pyramid scheme if there ever was one 😂 Edit: Honeybun is second best doggo after Yaya.

  • @v4skunk739
    @v4skunk739 Před 6 měsíci +2

    So you didn't even go inside lol?

  • @sambranton3346
    @sambranton3346 Před 5 dny

    My gut feeling is originally the mountain looked pyramid like, so they cut the rock away in places to make it more pyramid shaped and precise. I thought they had excavated pre cut tunnels inside which you could visit at one time!

  • @EmilySmith-td8lj
    @EmilySmith-td8lj Před 8 měsíci +3

    I know this means nothing coming from a stranger, but da** if I'm not proud of you for finishing that hike! I think the viewers could feel your pride and joy through the video.
    Of course, Honey Bun sure helped

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +3

      Thank you so much, that does mean a lot to me. And yeah, the canine moral support helped for sure

  • @scottsmartky
    @scottsmartky Před 8 měsíci +1

    Since I get to post this before Paula, Honeybun is the best sidekick you've had on one of these videos. :p Definitely think some wood crafter needs to make you a good walking stick that would break into pieces like a pool cue so you could pack it easily. You've been doing a lot of these in the off seasons, but they're good for dealing with snakes and spiders. And as the other poster noted, pyramid shapes make a lot of sense. Pyramids? Not really. But it's fun to believe, and I'm sure that country needs all the tourist dollars they can get.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Honeybun is the S tier companion so far. We all know it.

  • @iskandartaib
    @iskandartaib Před 8 měsíci +3

    As a geologist, I'd love to get a chunk of that "geopolymer". Find out what it actually is.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci

      Yeah, my guess is 'normal rock' but who knows...

    • @posoderem2782
      @posoderem2782 Před 7 měsíci

      Your guess? I mean, I was there with Dr. Sam and he was talking 2h about the site, material, analysis they made in institutes across the world, age, etc...And here I'm watching you walking alone through the site. How's that even possible? At what time you visited the site? Was it very, very early so the workers were still asleep?@@YesLandTravel

  • @Hawkskull
    @Hawkskull Před 8 měsíci +2

    14/10 for Honeybun, 10/10 for effort, 2/10 for the view. Hopefully the weather will start playing in your favour at some point Matthew.

  • @paintingdesign2044
    @paintingdesign2044 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Idk why you never get to the actual pyramid with the tunnels my friend!!!
    You have been everywhere but not at the place where you described in your video clip!!

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci

      I was on the Pyramid for the whole video. It's massive.

  • @BranislavB-hx9zy
    @BranislavB-hx9zy Před 5 měsíci +1

    Where are Bosnian environmental organizations and nature conservation organizations, this Bosnian businessman is damaging biodiversity with his excavations?

  • @benburns5995
    @benburns5995 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Hi Matthew, really enjoyed this video of Visoko Bosnia. I always enjoyed the Great Pyramid and enjoyed learning the story behind the Great Pyramid of Bosnia. It was nice that you had Honey Bun along with you on your hike climbing it. Glad you showed her at the end and that she made it back home. It is amazing that you ran into her again. With your connection with animals you kind of remind me of the Dog Whisperer. I think you made Honey Bun's day and she made yours in return. Onwards and upwards till next time Matthew.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Yeah, thank you for this. I hope you're right, me and honeybun had a wonderful little time and that was pretty special. Thank you for the support Ben.

    • @alicedeeper
      @alicedeeper Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@YesLandTravelabsolutely loved that part as well and it was actually the thing that kept me watching. There's nothing more wholesome than a hike with a dog as a companion and the fact that she tagged along spontaneously made it even better.

  • @transientdreams
    @transientdreams Před 7 měsíci +1

    On another note...Dogs who are neglected, rarely walked and exercised and left mostly to their own outside will sometimes look for people to walk with to give them legitimacy for being there. Dogs by themselves are always looked at and treated differently than when they are with someone. In which case, people barely look twice. Dogs know this, and I have had several different dogs do the same thing to me over the years. Oddly, it's mostly female dogs too. Cheers!

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci

      I feel in love with that dog it has to be said, I really hope that they have a good life but who knows. We had a great hike together though and honestly it made the whole trip so much better.

  • @glayher
    @glayher Před 8 měsíci +1

    Biscuit and beer sounds like a winning combo

  • @edsiceloff9473
    @edsiceloff9473 Před 4 měsíci

    Above all, you had the dog following you up the hard path.

  • @SolofAvaldor
    @SolofAvaldor Před 8 měsíci

    I thoroughly enjoyed this adventure, an interesting place that I didn't know about before. I was happy to see that you made it the top. You had a great adventure companion in local resident Honeybun.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      It was good to have a success in the books with this one, thank you for the support!

  • @definitelynotcarrie
    @definitelynotcarrie Před 7 měsíci

    Aww, Honeybun was such great company. Is it YesLand if there aren't hills to climb? Really cool video, I've never heard of the pyramid so that was fun to learn about.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci

      Honeybun made the whole journey worth it!

  • @mootytootyfrooty
    @mootytootyfrooty Před 6 měsíci

    if you look around utah and wyoming on google maps there are thousands of pyramidal structures made of just that: clay, it tends to erode in that triangular shape but usually against a slope, which this passes that check too just clearly on a much larger scale. The San Rafael reef is mind blowing.

  • @matsv201
    @matsv201 Před 4 měsíci

    Geopolymer can been made both naturally or via a human made process. Its basically just rock that formed into a cavity.
    Here is where it get somewhat controversial. While human mad geopolymer can be made in pretty much any angle, somewhat similar to concrete, for nature made it pretty much have to be totally Flatt. The issue is that its hard to believe that post industrial human would have the capacity to make it, and.. its clearly not flat.
    Well, there is a pretty simple explanation. It was formed flat than raised at a angle by geological effects. This is not only common, but actually typical. What is uncommon here is that its on at least 2 sides if not more, and it is at a very steep angle.
    Now the following parts is just pure guesswork from my side, so take it with a hand full of salt. The flatt sheet have been raised up at a very steep angle, then when it was at the steepest angle some part broke of and fell down on the other side, then 100 milion year or so later, there came humans and touch up the edges over a period that can have been a large number of generations.
    While its kind of sort of pyramid shape, 3.. or.. well more like 2½ of the sides are very pyramid like, the inclination of the sides are all different, this makes it a bit asymmetrical that in turn make the alignment a bit... lets say subjective to calculate. I could calculate it to be absolutely north-south if i want to, just selecting the right measuring point, but i could also calculate it to be 10 degree of (that would be pretty bad).
    Here is where i get kind of boring. With my guess in mind, the pyramid was made in sort of 3 steps. 1: geological. 2: humans doing caves 3: edge touch-up.
    If the hill was made the way i guessed, there i bound to be loads of voids in the hill. Those could be used for living habitats for early humans. The ice age was never that far south. The human inhabited caves can very well be 12000 year old and the edge touch up done at a later date, like really a lot later. Its really hard to say. I would say its done fairly recently (say in the order of a few hundred years) considering the corners is still that sharp. What we can say for sure its that it was not done the last couple of decades or possibly even century due to the simple fact we have quite old areal photos of the pyramid.
    So that would be sort of a non magical explination

  • @Christian-Roots818
    @Christian-Roots818 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The Ancient Medieval Structure and the Roman Fortifications Needs the Real Archeology, because Bosnian Pyramid Digs May Destroy them is they’re Fake !
    Very Cool Video !
    So, The Bosnian Pyramids are jus Wishful Thinking ?

    • @Melle-vx4ww
      @Melle-vx4ww Před měsícem +1

      No one is allowed to destroy the old medieval fortress on top of the hill, it is protected by law. These are the remains of the medieval royal city that was also called Visoki.

  • @ayejayeo
    @ayejayeo Před 8 měsíci +1

    Doggie hikes ftw!

  • @SharlzG
    @SharlzG Před 8 měsíci +1

    I was so sad when you lost honey bun, but then so excited when you finally found the way to the top 🎉

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +3

      I was really happy to see her again at the end though, that was great

    • @SharlzG
      @SharlzG Před 8 měsíci

      @@YesLandTraveltrue! Great final plot twist.

  • @user-uy6ug3nf4t
    @user-uy6ug3nf4t Před 3 měsíci

    Forget Visoko - you should have visited the pyramid valley in Krajina by the city Bihac and Cazin.

  • @PaulaDeming
    @PaulaDeming Před 8 měsíci +1

    Petition for Honey Bun to become a permanent Yes Land cohost

  • @PEN32
    @PEN32 Před 10 dny

    Only believers can find the right path!

  • @ShylaRinoa
    @ShylaRinoa Před 8 měsíci +1

    Loved this episode ... feels like a combination of Remember Remember and obviously your travel blog
    Loved Honey Bun too! She's a cutie

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was fun doing some real life history stuff!

  • @centurion5210
    @centurion5210 Před 6 měsíci

    You sacrificed a backpack for the science.

  • @johnal-kel9063
    @johnal-kel9063 Před 6 měsíci

    That place was like a ghost town, i didn't see anyone except the animals!

  • @elink2k1
    @elink2k1 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I love that you went with the name Honey Bun... but have you sampled a Bear Claw? Delicious! But if I'm honest, and I usually am, Nutty Buddy gets my 10/10 for breakfast sweet with coffee.
    BTW: beer after a hike... is always a 10/10!

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci

      It was beer before the hike that got me haha. Cheers man, I appreciate you

  • @notthatseanbean
    @notthatseanbean Před 8 měsíci +1

    12/10 for scritches! They’re back! 😻

  • @hornist34
    @hornist34 Před 8 měsíci +1

    ... when "onwards and upwards" is taken literally ...
    Also ... HONEYBUN!

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      True, next time I'm just going to go to the Utah salt flats...

  • @charlottemalone7375
    @charlottemalone7375 Před 8 měsíci

    Best post-credit scene ever ❤

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci

      It made me smile doing that! Thank you for watching the reunion!

  • @boinayel4409
    @boinayel4409 Před 8 měsíci

    Well if the pyramid won't attract tourists, the inside of the pyramid might definitely attract cavers.

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Yeah that's true, it's meant to be really cool. I honestly hope they make it a real tourist thing to do

  • @think2086
    @think2086 Před 6 měsíci

    Look up "rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras." My guess is a similar thing was done here specifically for farming. We know that to the west of an imaginary line between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, farming took root aggressively, starting around 30,000 years ago, with early farming societies building elaborate farming communities in some cases. This, my guess is, was that sort of a thing. It was thus probably more "carved" than "built." If you look at rice terraces, you very quickly see how possible it is to make a massive pyramid by simply cleaning up the faces that are already mostly there. If you happen upon a hill that already is doing an impression of a pyramid almost, then you can get closer to the final result more quickly. I think that's likely what happened here.
    The "energy" stuff however is pure crap. Love the random unlabeled color wave graph thing that means nothing.

  • @thebuckeyegamer
    @thebuckeyegamer Před 8 měsíci +1

    There's a great channel called Miniminuteman who is an archeologist who debunks conspiracy theorists that focus on "ancient civilizations" and pyramids made by aliens or Atlanteans or whatever and explains how these kinds of mountains are formed naturally and why the classic "pyramid" shape is so prevalent in nature (wind erosion) and across cultures (they didn't have artificial light and needed to maximize access to the sun).

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci

      Yeah, I think our past is more complex than we think but this is not a pyramid, that I know for sure.

    • @thebuckeyegamer
      @thebuckeyegamer Před 8 měsíci +1

      I loved your part in the end about how history is already amazing enough and there's already so much to learn and study that we don't need to manufacture things. @@YesLandTravel

    • @posoderem2782
      @posoderem2782 Před 7 měsíci

      But the thing is that many parts of the history that we know nowadays are false. It is interesting for sure but unfortunately it's just a bunch of theories which are not proved. And to be honest, most of these lies are produced in England. @@thebuckeyegamer

    • @kacmed
      @kacmed Před 6 měsíci

      strange eh? they were saying that big pyramid in mexico is just a hill ... although many locals were saying something else ... untill somebody uncovered it ... and i think same story goes for Çatalhöyük - it was just a hill in turkey where sheeps were feeding, untill they found the oldest city ever recorded - its just a hill, untill its not :D - now they uncovered 9 cities in turkey each dating 9k years before christ ... that were just a hill ... but the most important thing? everybody was calling it a hoax, its just a hill of natural formation, locals are just insane ... untill 1 crazy archeologist started to dig ;) so for now i am scepcital, i will wait untill they uncover whole hill then we will know if its a real pyramid or not

  • @Sl1vers
    @Sl1vers Před 8 měsíci +1

    BEST VIDEO START E V E R !!!!! I 💜Honeybun SO MUCH !!!!

  • @wakeUPdummies
    @wakeUPdummies Před 6 měsíci

    18:50 no bird. A skinwalker.

  • @IdrizHasanovic
    @IdrizHasanovic Před 7 měsíci +2

    Gurabija is actually a traditional bosnian cookie made of only few ingrediants and represents poverty of some old days. It was the only sweet that we eated back days when there was no any chocolate or famous brands like today. Gurabija is something that made us really happy as a kids. Thank you for this video. As a bosnian, I really enjoyed watching you climbing the, for now, so called, pyramid. But, even if it is not a pyramid, we are sure that the mountain is in the shape of a pyramid. So at least we didn't lie about that. 😂😁

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci +1

      They taste so much like Shortbread that we have in the UK so it was a very comforting treat and thank you for sharing the history of them! Thank you for watching!

  • @TheJedo
    @TheJedo Před 8 měsíci +1

    I would love to go to Bosnia to see Honeybun

  • @Arman-cy2fq
    @Arman-cy2fq Před 5 měsíci

    The Bosnia pyramid is the biggest in the world

  • @jamescartwright1150
    @jamescartwright1150 Před 8 měsíci

    So pop and a bar has turned into beer and a biscuit then? 😉😀 You may have gone the hard way up but if you hadn't you wouldn't have met honeybun 🙂

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci

      Beer and a Biscuit might be something I do more often!

  • @SK-ib5cg
    @SK-ib5cg Před 7 měsíci

    Der Küchen ist ein alte Rezept Gürabija , in Bosnien, sie müssen cevapcici essen , und gutes Restaurant in Stadt in Schoppin Center Susa ist sehr gut und nicht teuer

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci

      I tried cevapcici and it was great as well as a beef and potato stew which was incredible.

  • @Bosnia_Magnetfishing
    @Bosnia_Magnetfishing Před 4 měsíci +1

    Nid go insad piramid

  • @caronhansen9178
    @caronhansen9178 Před 7 měsíci

    It is an ancient stargate thanks for sharing it is on my bucket list 🏔🏔🙏🌏💜

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci

      Look, I'm totally on board to go hunting for a stargate!

  • @lyzyl
    @lyzyl Před 8 měsíci +1

    I never knew there was a pyramid in Bosnia. The history and new age mashup is interesting. Love seeing how you manage to take the road less traveled and arrive at the destination, even when it takes a few tries 😅 Honeybun is the star of the show in this one ❤

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Yeah, I really like getting out of the cities for sure, and honey bun made the day!

  • @SK-ib5cg
    @SK-ib5cg Před 7 měsíci

    You Mast kam in Sommer is tot fan end Partie

  • @SK-ib5cg
    @SK-ib5cg Před 7 měsíci

    Die Steine fehlen weil früher Menschen die Steine genommen haben um Hauser zu bauen

  • @sveu3pm
    @sveu3pm Před 7 měsíci

    you are right about vibrations stuff but i agree with Osmanagić there is much more things berried in the ground than official story goes.institutionally weve been fed only the top layer victor's propaganda ,
    my guess is also he purposely is trying to look little rediculous to keep official historials off of site .

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci

      Oh, I like that theory! There's something special about the area that much is obvious and I woudn't be surprised if they find a lot more cool stuff there that's for sure!

  • @DaleDanErnie
    @DaleDanErnie Před 7 měsíci +2

    I wouldn’t say there’s “very little evidence”
    Mathematically there is tons of evidence.

  • @blacmanonrise1
    @blacmanonrise1 Před 2 měsíci

    What a dog wow!!!

  • @user-el9pr1te9j
    @user-el9pr1te9j Před 7 měsíci +5

    I'm a geologist. This looks like perfectly natural sedimentary rocks that have been tilted due to tectonic activity. The so-called geopolymer looks the same as Millstone Grit from Northern England - presumably no one has bothered to take a thin section of this and looked at it under a microscope. Imagine that the rock strata are the pages of a book that has been tilted. The side he walked up is like walking up the flat of the tilted page. My bet is that on the opposite side of the mountain you will not see flat 'pages', but just the edges - in geological terms, he has walked up the dip slope, on the opposite side will be the scarp slope. Just a scam to make someone some money from gullible new-age tourists.

    • @edzone6145
      @edzone6145 Před 6 měsíci +6

      Im a geoligist also and i can say that everything you wrote is false.

    • @user-el9pr1te9j
      @user-el9pr1te9j Před 6 měsíci

      Really? Such a statement is hardly helpful to the debate, and lacks credibility - especially since you can't even spell geologist correctly. Please elaborate as to why you think my statements are false, and provide your detailed viewpoints. Thanks.@@edzone6145

    • @Neko-wy4dt
      @Neko-wy4dt Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@edzone6145He's lying because he's not a geologist

    • @Christian-Roots818
      @Christian-Roots818 Před 3 měsíci

      Such a Disappointment ! 😔

    • @syyylvo
      @syyylvo Před 18 dny +2

      Your analysis is pretty superficial to just dismiss it as a scam. Doesn't matter if you are a geologist, if you wanna be serious you should visit and carry out research before stating anything

  • @SK-ib5cg
    @SK-ib5cg Před 7 měsíci

    Willkommen in my Haumtaun ai live in Germany

  • @kristianvolic170
    @kristianvolic170 Před 7 měsíci

    The government declared the mountain a nature reserve after Semir's excavations, so no more digging is taking place. The mountain does not belong to Semir, which also made it difficult to dig there. You also have to know that Bosnia was once a seabed, which also led to erosion in the rock

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 7 měsíci

      Oh that's very intresting, I do think more digging should happen but maybe by a less unilateral prospective. Thank you for the update

  • @Dino23B
    @Dino23B Před 5 měsíci +2

    I am Bosnian, you just waste your time for nothing is only a mountain. He only amateur archaeology, Scientific investigations at the site showed that there are no pyramids. In addition, scientists have criticized the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina for supporting the claim of pyramids, saying: "This project is a dirty joke on the unsuspecting public and has no place in the real world of science."

    • @BranislavB-hx9zy
      @BranislavB-hx9zy Před 5 měsíci +2

      Where are Bosnian environmental organizations and nature conservation organizations, this Bosnian businessman is damaging biodiversity with his excavations?

    • @Dino23B
      @Dino23B Před 5 měsíci

      @@BranislavB-hx9zy This is nothing, we have worse environmental disasters than this, the government does nothing. I live in the city of Doboj, we have three rivers, all three rivers are polluted. Nothing has changed since socialism, the factories and people dump everything into the rivers

  • @ervinpolk3692
    @ervinpolk3692 Před 7 měsíci

    waste of time

  • @sythe77
    @sythe77 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Nope. Bunch of hills.

  • @besi1974
    @besi1974 Před 6 měsíci

    it is a Hungarian pyramid ! ancient magyar writings found in there and the land belonged to the Magyars long time ago.

    • @BranislavB-hx9zy
      @BranislavB-hx9zy Před 5 měsíci

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Hungary will soon be under Putin and Russia, then Serbia can expand Vojvodina more into Hungary and become bigger! 48% of Bosnia is already under Serbian control with Dodik who is a personal friend of Putin! Forget Bosnia! Hungary does not understand geo-politics Orban is a political amateur Vucic laughs at him!😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @essentially_grey
    @essentially_grey Před 8 měsíci +1

    So happy that Honeybun was there when you got back 🥹 she got home safely 😊 although something tells me she probably knows her way round that place pretty well!

    • @YesLandTravel
      @YesLandTravel  Před 8 měsíci

      Yeah it felt like she'd been up that pyramid before!