Topographical survey and analysis by GPR for the structure recently found in Ravne Labyrinth

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Agg. Prof. Paolo Debertolis*, Prof. Lucia Krasovec Lucas **

* University of Trieste (Italy), ** Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Abstract - During the research for a structure had buried for centuries, a proper study is necessary to limit the excavation area and the possibility of damaging the structure with mishandling.

In the case of Ravne’s tunnel proceeding to remove the earth that filled them, we realized that this solution could be conceived by the builders or by those after them to protect and hide better something placed below the current floor or inside the walls.

For this study we started to study the whole system of tunnels looking to find out  a possible abnormality in the levels and shape of the galleries from the architectural point of view, but also we have begun to look for the presence of something under the floor with the GPR (georadar) .

We therefore used a GPR model Detector Duo IDS (Pisa – Italy) with new dual wide-band frequency antenna at 250 MHz and 700 MHz for geological features that can reach 5 meters deep in the survey, even in difficult wet conditions, able to obtain high resolution reliable images.

In this way we have identified an anomaly at about 90 meters from the entrance whom we represent in this article in its features and even through this study may be more easily brought to light.

Keywords: bosnian pyramids, Visoko Civilzation, archaeology, Ravne tunnel, Ravne Labyrinth, artifact, tomb, SBRG, SB Research Group

 

Video (in English language) performed at 2nd ICBP2011 Conference (Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, September 4-11, 2011). Filming by Andrea Venturini. Editing by Paolo Debertolis.

 

 

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Abstracts of other scientific papers presented by SBRG to Congress ICBP 2011 in Visoko (September 4-11, 2011)

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 TAG: bosnian pyramids, Visoko's Civilsation, archaeology, Ravne tunnel, artifact, tomb, SBRG, SB Research Group

 

Mechanical Design in the Ravne’s tunnels: Structure and Form

 

Prof. Lucia Krasovec Lucas **

** Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

 

Abstract - The aim of the study is to explore the shape of  Ravne’s tunnels, their geometry and the mechanical / aesthetical meaning.

The analysis started from a topographic survey that may put in evidence, by the graphic representation, a detailed description of the Ravne underground as it appears up to today. There are a lot of mysterious aspects over there, especially for the presence of the parabolic curves and the catenary principle in the development of the tunnels through / by the concrete (as it seems), as well as the help of some drywall ( a kind of). All  this leads to believe in an hypothetical and extraordinary design concept, done by whom and for what?

The use of these shapes has a mechanical origin. Indeed, there is a manifold of physical principles, characterized by a set of relationships whose expression ultimately takes the form of a work of art. The roots of this physical geometry go back to the discoveries, in ancient Greece, of Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Archimedes, all of whom—unlike the presentation provided by Euclid’s Elements—derived the principles of geometry from investigations of physical principles. From Galileo to Eulero, from Leibniz to Gaudì,  through the Gauss’s theory,  they all tried to find out a mathematical function, because of the greatest advantage of the inverted catenaries that are very efficient in carrying heavy loads with a particular poetic idea of shape.

 

 

 

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Archaeological study for the restoration of the structure found below the present floor of  Ravne’s Labyrinth

 

Sara C. Acconci**

 

** The Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Fundation (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

 

Abstract - In front of the recovery needs of a newly discovered archaeological structure will set many problems for its protection and saving. In particular, it is necessary not to cause damage to the structure with an excavation carried out incorrectly or not meaningful.
In the case of the structure found in Ravne’s Labyrinth, the problem arose mainly from the numerous water seepage from the surrounding walls, water that, once opened the contents of the structure, could ruin the whole preserved over the centuries.
It seems that the builders had anticipated this eventuality and had therefore decided to fill the pit dug to contain the structure with clayey material particularly suitable for blocking the flow.
Having to investigate from frontal the structure to avoid compromising the static of it, we have devised a system of water drainage that is an effective technical solution to resolve a problem of special difficulty which rarely occurs in an archaeological excavation, a ramp with large safety margins and a structure above the excavation to protect operators and the artifact itself from possible collapse.

 

 

 

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Interesting finding in Ravne tunnels in Bosnia

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TAG: bosnian pyramids, Visoko Civilsation, archaeology, Ravne tunnel, artefact, SBRG, SB Research Group

At the end of April 2011, in a new section of Ravne underground prehistoric compound that was being cleared, an interesting piece of handwork was discovered by one of our close collaborators, a worker of the Bosnian Foundation of the Sun Pyramid.

From the earth filling up the tunnels a small, roundish sandtone rock emerged. It had two surfaces that had been polished and then carved by a human hand.

The stone’s dimensions were equal to 4x5 cm and its thickness around 3 cm.

Side A, as we will call it from now on, displayed a deeply carved triangle. Close to the triangle’s base there is a further angle with its bisector and in this point the carving seems less deep.

 

Fig.1 The side of the rock appears well polished on two sides

 

Fig.2 Side A of the carved stone. The triangle can be clearly seen

 

Fig.3 Side B bears several carvings with different depths and thicknesses

 

It was been erroneously exchanged for a very primitive six-pointed Star of David with a missing side, yet, depending on different interpretations it could be the solution to a geometric problem or a symbol related to the pyramid or simply a marking.

Apparently the carving has been carried out with a sharpened tool, with different pressure in order to mark the two geometric figures, the equilateral triangle and the angle with its bisector. However two different tools could also have been used.

 

Fig.4 The triangle shape on side A with height drawn close to the vertex and also the bisector of the angle above the base

 

Fig.5 The artifact seen from side B; carvings can be clearly seen

 

What we will call side B shows a set of carvings crossing each other to form different angles with different spans. Out of these lines, three seem to have been deliberately carved more deeply and with a different thickness compared to all other carvings.

 

 

Fig.6 Side B at the digital microscope. The different depth and thickness of carvings can be clearly seen

 

 

Fig.7 Deeper carvings on side B seem to form an angle close to the edge (digital microscope)

 

 Fig.8 With tangent light, side B shows the depth of the carving (digital microscope)

 

Whatever the hypotheses on the possibile meanings of the artifact, the lines have not been placed randomly and microscope images with different lighting conditions seem to confirm the fact.

Whoever made it, had sharpened tools and therefore a suitable technology for the precision of the carvings.

 

Fig.9 The digital microscope highlights that on side A the height line drawn on the triangle puposely starts from the base of the triangle

 

Fig.10 The angles of the triangle drawn on side A appear clearly carved on the stone (digital microscope)

 

Such object has been found close to the trampling area and it appears almost impossibile to determine whether the artifact has been lost by chance inside the tunnel or if the object was part of the materials used to seal the tunnels and therefore abandoned during a certain historic period before the sealing of the galleries, as it was no longer being used.

 

Fig.11 Above. The entrance to the new gallery of Ravne tunnels that is being cleared. Below. The exact area of the finding

 

In any case, further interesting abnormalities seemed to appear in the area of the finding. For the first time we could see a dry wall which is at right angles  to the tunnel’s entrance, instead of sealing another tunnel. The structure seems to continue southwards, thus forming a slighly less than 90° angle. What could be interpreted as a small sidewalk runs parallel to the wall. The structure can hardly be acknowledged from an archaeologic point of view because it is made of the same material of the present trampling area. In this case, however the ground seems more compact.

Paolo Debertolis, Sara Acconci - June 2, 2011

 

Note after publication: in a more careful analysis of the B-side you can also see two triangles with opposing apexes at the center of the figure that also give a sense to geometric aspect of this side.

 

Many thanks to the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation for the permission to publish pictures of the Ravne tunnels and of the artifact

 

References

1) P.Debertolis, V.Hocza: "November 2010 Report on Ravne’s tunnels (Preliminary study approach)", SBRG, 4 November 2010

2) P.Debertolis, V.Hocza: "November 2010 Report on Ravne’s tunnels (Theories about artefacts and structure)", SBRG, 16 November 2011

3) P.Debertolis, V.Hocza: "November 2010 Report on Ravne’s tunnels (The initial measurements)", SBRG, 20 November 2010

4) P. Debertolis: "Nuove foto che giungono dalla nuova sezione dei tunnel di Ravne”, SBRG, 18 febbraio 2011

5) P. Debertolis, S. Acconci, L. Krasovec Lucas, V. M. Hocza:”Definitive report on our first scouting into the new section of Ravne's Labyrinth in December 2010", SBRG, 12 December 2010

6) P. Debertolis, “Un'importante scoperta all'interno dei tunnel di Ravne fa discutere”, SBRG, 20 marzo 2011

 

 

 

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Preliminary results in the research of sound wave emissions by megalyths in Visoko Valley (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Keywords: Bosnian Pyramids, Visoko Civilization, pyramids, archaeoacoustics, Voice of the pyramid, SBRG, SB Research Group

As explained in different recent papers, the knowledge of sound and the exploitation of its effects in different megalithic civilizations remarkably influenced planning and building of monumental structures.

Therefore the study of ancient buildings is unveiling a lost ancient knowledge. However it is not a novelty in archaeology.

Many examples could be cited, e.g. research carried out on ancient temples built up to 6000 years ago in Malta, or strange sound abnormalities in the large ball court and in Kukulkan temple in Chichen Itza, or several sites in the United Kingdom (Wayland’s Smithy, Chun Quoit and Cairn Euny) or in Ireland (Newgrange, Cairns L and I, Carbane West). The latter structures date back to approximately 3500 b.C. and, although roughly carved in the details, all these areas show resonance frequencies which, during continuous singing and praying, could influence individual moods even to a state of trance, owing to the direct effect of these sound waves at particular frequencies on the human body.

In order to understand this ancient technology, researchers have to apply a multi-disciplinary approach to their studies so as to overcome the scope of traditional archaeology and open a different dimension in the study of ancient worlds.

This is also the purpose of our research, carried out thanks to equipment that is not related to archaeology, but that helps us to understand the effects on the human body, thanks to the measurement of phenomena.

In the Bosnian pyramid we wanted to verify the findings of the Croatian physicist Slobodan Mizdrak from Zagreb [3], who arrived in the Bosnian Pyramids’ Valley on 10 and 11 April 2010.

In his study he carried out measurements in three areas: on the Sun Pyramid, on Vratnica Tumulus and on the side of Ravne’s pre-historic compound.

On that occasion the equipment he used was: an electromagnetic radiation detector EMF 823 with internal sensor and an electromagnetic radiation detector EMF 828 with 3D external sensor, factory calibrated with great precision. Two supporting devices were added: an oscilloscope and a spectrometer.

 

Fig. 1 - The physicist Slobodan Mizdrak during his survey (Picture: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation)

 

The physicist Mizdrak detected a continuous ultrasound presence with the same emission frequency (28kHz) and even the same sine shape, in the central plain of the Bosnian Sun Pyramid and also centrally to the plain on top of  Vratnica Tumulus, and also in the passages sideways to the pre-historic underground compound of Ravne.

After a preliminary analysis, we felt that the equipment itself limited the frequency that had been detected, since a short wave detector had been used thus possibly limiting the signal to 28.000Hz, whereas the signal was much wider and complex.

During the previous months we had detected the frequency at the Sun Pyramid, however with different features compared to Mizdrak’s. It appears that his analyses have been carried out in too short a period to define precisely emission characteristics, with all due respect to the quality of his work.

In our detections on top of the Sun Pyramid (from January until April in three different rounds) [1, 2], we could observe a remarkable change both in the precise point of detection of the ultrasound frequency and in its features.

It was demonstrated that the emission can move even 10-15 metres from the main first point of detection, yet never beyond that point.

In the last observations in April we have also used three different operators with the same equipment (compander) for a prolonged period. In particular, despite accurate search by dr. Acconci within the Medieval citadel placed eastwards, on the top of the pyramid, no clear signal was detected.

The emission of ultrasound radiations appeared to be concentrated on top in the Westward portion, in a quite wide area of detection.

 

Fig. 2 - On top of the Sun Pyramid recordings inside the Medieval citadel gave poor results previously. We tried again in May 2011 during a shooting of Sarajevo’s television

 

We felt that the emission beam was much wider that the one detected by Mizdrak – 5-6 meter - wider; yet we felt also that this beam had moved in a quite large area, yet never beyond a 15-20-meter-diameter circle on top of the pyramid outside the medieval fortress.

Also its intensity was not constant but modulated and sometimes even absent. In particular, during recordings in April we found that the sound could stop for ten minutes or so and then reappear even with a very high intensity.

The advantage of using a compander instead of an electromagnetic radiation detector connected to an oscilloscope is that it is possibile to listen clearly to the frequency with all components as if listening to an orchestra and violins can be distinguished from winds or  timpani.

We observed the presence of two different components; one was more constant yet less powerful and the other was modulated, inconstant yet very powerful (when present).

Fig. 3 - The use of the compander is quite simple: headphones are connected to the equipment and the microphone’s antenna has to be pointed to the ground. Then one must walk and try to detect ultrasound beams emerging from the hill. In the hills close by there was nothing of the sort

 

The impression received while examining in the studio recordings carried out according to the rigid protocol elaborated by our devices expert, is that our equipment might have detected sometimes also radio waves coming from the ground and concentrated on the pyramid. They overlapped the basic frequency.

At Vratnica Tumulus the phenomenon did not seem present to the same extent, yet it seemed much more discontinuous.

In this area we even used four different operators, however only one of them was able to detect a frequency coming from the Tumulus. The detection was not located at the centre of the plain on top of the Tumulus, but it was discontinuous and located far from the center.

 

Fig. 4 - All parameters of each recording have been noted, including spurious parameters, such as an airplane flying above us or a dog barking. Notes were recorded on forms prepared by our devices expert (eng. Battistoni)

 

With the same equipment we have been able to verify the possible presence of a “chimney” coming from the chamber placed 5 metres below the top of the tumulus and detected a few years ago by a soil log.

Passing over this narrow area, all operators observed a variation of the white noise that can be detected when there is no ultrasound emission. There was a very weak, high-frequency sound. This happened every time one passed above the hypothetical chimney.

Possibly Mizrak’s devices detected this discontinuity in an area in which natural audio frequencies might have concentrated owing to the movement of air.

Fig. 5 - In the area close to the supposed chimney we compared impressions by all operators

 

Instead we detected a more similar emission to that of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun in a farther position from the top with very peculiar features.

At present we are trying to separate audio from radio frequencies of natural origin, by means of several experiments even with other devices.

It seems not plausible that the creators of these structures were unaware of these “effects” connected to the ground’s physics and concentrated from their structures, yet they must have been looking for them deliberately. The majority of their ceremonies were probably carried out on top of the Sun Pyramid or on Vratnica Tumulus and the effect they looked for was more or less something that could alter the state of consciousness of the human body during these moments of spiritual evolution.

For a long time medicine has been aware of the therapeutic use of ultrasounds which - at certain frequencies – can have a pain-killing, anti inflammatory effect in orthopaedics owing to a direct action on human cells and also their stimulatory effect on the recovery of blood vessels is well known, even though the mechanism is unknown.

Yet they cannot be considered a panacea, as precise degrees of frequency and impulses are necessary.

On the contrary, often sound waves create different, even very serious interferences, starting from acoustic pollution, to reach professional diseases caused by the workers’ proximity to noisy instrumentations. Luckily today several European laws tend to limit these damages by reducing the degree of  allowed decibels.

In the late Middle Ages and maybe also in previous times dwellings would not dare being built on top of the Sun Pyramid, in the position in which this effect on the human body was more concentrated. Those populations preferred building sideways, in the place in which the Medieval citadel can still be seen.

As a conclusion, preliminary results of our research, which will continue during the whole year, show that there is an ultrasound and sound wave emission  on top of the Sun Pyramid and on part of Vratnica Tumulus.

So far we do not know if this phenomenon has a natural origin, due to the effect of the concentration of natural emissions carried out by the pyramidal shape of the structure, or artificial, due to the shape of the hollows below the surface, detected both thanks to probings that have been carried out and thanks to the georadar

In particular the thesis of the artificial origin of emissions is based on the hypothesis that these hollows, built by the makers of these structures, as e.g. in Vratnica Tumulus, are able to trap natural radiations, thus giving them the ability to self-amplify themselves by resonance. But this thesis is yet to be demonstrated.

In any case, regardless of different points of view, this effect must have been probably searched by that civilization as in other megalithic sites, thus conferring a “magical” effect to their celebrations. However they were not at all magic, because they took advantage of natural physical phenomena together with a deep knowledge of the human body’s reaction to these stimulations.

Maybe their structures could appear rough and not refined to the eye of modern men, however they conceal a very sophisticated technology. At the time basic values were different.

At present, besides the already mentioned compander which supplies a qualitative feature of the type of radiation being examined, we are also using highly sensitive microphones (cardioid Sennheiser MKH 800 Twin, frequency response 10Hz – 50.000Hz) which can detect ultrasound waves and professional recorders (Zoom H4N digital recorder, frequency response 10Hz – 42.000Hz  in +- 3dB) which can record ultrasounds without compressing them.

Fig. 6 - The use of more sophisticated instruments enabled us to explore the whole ultrasound spectrum. This is the microphone and the professional digital recorder (picture by R. Hoyle)

 

 

Later these recorded sound are transposed of 2-3 octaves by the computer software in order to obtain an audible frequency and be listened to, and also seen thanks to a digital audio spectrum analyzer (NTI Audio XL2).

These different devices guarantee two different kinds of elaborations of what we recorded and enable us to compare the results of the two techniques in order to eliminate possible spurious frequencies caused by the instruments.

With these last equipment we could confirm that ultrasound emission seemed to measure approximately 35.000Hz on average and not around 28.000Hz, as detected by Mizdrak.

 

Fig. 7 - The use of the audio spectrum analyzer enabled us to circumscribe perfectly the frequency to an average 32.000Hz (from 30KHz to 34Khz)

 

The results we obtained seem remarkable and can be considered the evolution of studies carried out in the Eighties and Nineties by British researchers on megalith areas in Southern England, yet with more sophisticated equipment thanks to the developments of electronics and computers.

The research is still under way and far from being concluded.

Paolo Debertolis, Sara Acconci – May 30, 2011

 

References

1)       P. Debertolis, G. A. Battistoni, V. M. Hocza: “We recorded the "voice" of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun (Visoćica Hill)”, SBRG, January 28, 2011

2)       P. Debertolis, G. A. Battistoni, V. M. Hocza:  “Still checking on the "voice" of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun”, SBRG, February 25, 2011

3)       N.N. "ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM THE BOSNIAN PYRAMIDS",  Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Fundation, April 23, 2010

 

It is possible to watch some videos of this research here and here.

 

 

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