Caught up in a 21st-century stew of ethnonationalism and fake history, the country’s Serbs are now endangering its fragile peace. A funeral in Bratu

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Caught up in a 21st-century stew of ethnonationalism and fake history, the country’s Serbs are now endangering its fragile peace.

A funeral in Bratunac 30 years after the start of the Bosnian War for four victims whose remains were found following decades of searching. Credit... Marko Risovic for The New York Times

The Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids, near the medieval town Visoko, features three hills that Sam Osmanagich, a Sarajevo-educated anthropologist who “discovered” them in 2005, claims were built by humans 29,000 years ago. During the so-called Little Ice Age, he says, a highly developed civilization chose this spot to erect, block by block, three symmetrical structures ranging in height from 290 to 1,100 feet: the Pyramid of the Dragon, the Pyramid of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Sun. In his telling, the three structures possibly functioned as an advanced communication system, emitting “energy beams” that followed the path of the sun. “Russian scientists say that the speed of scalar waves is one hundred million times faster than the speed of light,” he says, “so that information moves instantly from one end of the galaxy to the other.”

Beneath the Valley of the Pyramids lie the Ravne tunnels, an ancient man-made labyrinth that Osmanagich began clearing in 2006. In the 1.8-mile-long section open to the public, he says, high concentrations of electrified molecules known as negative ions deliver healing energy. “I can tell you this, I have never had Covid, and being in this place is one thousand times more powerful than any vaccine,” he told me earlier this year, as we stood by the entrance, watching visitors strap on helmets before plunging into the gloom. Though scientists have dismissed the pyramids as a hoax, the complex has become Bosnia’s most popular tourist attraction. Around 136,000 people visited last year, many seeking to boost their immune systems, treat various illnesses or protect themselves from the coronavirus.

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