Thousands of tourists have over the past 13 years visited the central Bosnian town of Visoko to see what some believe are ancient pyramids, the founder of the ‘Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation’, Semir Osmanagic, told N1 on Tuesday.

“This began as a one-man project, however when I published the news about the existence of pyramids in October 2005, I received 12,000 emails expressing support from around the world,” he said. “This is not a one-man project, it is a cultural heritage that belongs to everyone.”

Osmanagic said that radiocarbon dating was conducted at the site and the results were sent to an institute in Kiev.

“The results showed that we are speaking about something 29,200 years old, which means we are talking about the oldest pyramid in the world,” he said.

National Geographic visited the site twice, then the History Channel, and then the Discovery Channel as well, as well as 2,250 volunteers from 62 countries throughout the past ten years, he said.

“There is no other project in the Balkans that has garnered as much public attention as the Bosnian pyramids did,” he added.

The 21st century also brought a new kind of research of pyramids with it, he said.

“Pyramids are powerful energy machines. They teach us that there was once a developed civilisation in the far past, which knew about our planet more than we do. They knew how to intensify energetic factors,” he said, adding that “when you have energy, you have everything.”

“Negative ions clean the dust off the air, they raise the level of oxygen in the blood, and they are generally very useful,” he said, exemplifying this with mount Igman, which he said has the largest concentration of negative ions at 4,000 per cubic centimetre.

“In our tunnels, we measured up to 40,000 negative ions. As if those progressive people from ancient history constructed healing chambers underneath the ground,” he said.