Giant Stone Ball Discovered by Sam Osmanagich

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The same guy who's gotten attention for his work with the Bosnian Pyramids is digging up a giant stone ball containing lots of iron, located in the Croatia/Serbia border area in a forest.

It may sound like a strange movie sequel, but a Bosnian archaeologist with a penchant for dressing like Indiana Jones has discovered a giant stone sphere he believes proves the existence of a lost civilization.

Archaeologist Dr. Sam Osmanagich discovered the stone in the Podunavlje Forest in mid-March and believes it may be the largest stone ball in the world.

So far, less than half of the ball has been uncovered, but Osmanagich estimates its radius to measure between 1.2 and 1.5 meters (3.9 - 4.9ft).

With a very high iron content, preliminary tests suggest the huge ball could weigh more than 30 tons (60,000lb), which would make it the biggest stone sphere in Europe.

If it turns out to be even heavier, it could surpass similar discoveries in Costa Rica (which are believed to be man made) and in Mexico (deemed natural formations) to be declared the biggest stone ball in the world.

Osmanagich says when the research is complete, the discovery could prove that Southern Europe was home to advanced civilizations from the “distant past” who had their own form of “high technology”.

Osmanagich has previously claimed that a series of hills in central Bosnia and Herzegovina actually contain ancient pyramids and tunnels underground. He says that the huge sphere could back up this theory by providing further evidence of an ancient highly developed civilization.

However, Osmanagich’s claims about the stone are disputed by fellow archeologists who have a different - and more natural - explanation for the large stone.

Mandy Edwards of the University of Manchester's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences told the MailOnline the rock is likely a result of ‘concretion’, formed by the "precipitation of natural mineral cement within the spaces between sediment grains".

"There is some genuine archaeology on the hill and I'm told it's medieval, possibly Bronze Age or Roman”, said Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists, to The Telegraph.

“But the speculation that there could be a 12,000-year-old structure beneath is a complete fantasy and anyone with basic knowledge of archaeology or history should recognise that,” he added.

Given that the experts are divided, we’ll let you be the judge:

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I especially liked this part:

"There is some genuine archaeology on the hill and I'm told it's medieval, possibly Bronze Age or Roman”, said Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists, to The Telegraph.

“But the speculation that there could be a 12,000-year-old structure beneath is a complete fantasy and anyone with basic knowledge of archaeology or history should recognise that,” he added.

So he is saying, he has been "told" that there are artifacts in this area that are "medieval, possibly Bronze Age or Roman," as if these are just minor details easy to confuse, not as if they are supposed to be vastly different time periods or anything, but yet they couldn't possibly be 12,000 years old because everybody alreadys knows that's impossible. In other words it doesn't fit the models this guy was taught at university and he doesn't have the brains or guts to dive into any ideas radically different than what he's already been taught. All he is contributing to this article is his gut reaction just based on what he was extremely vaguely told by somebody else.

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I think they were old Roman toll gates! The heavy ball should have a lanyard on it to loop a big ole chain and that sat so the ball was the counter weight to the draw gate! When they paid the ball the ball fell and the gate rose up! There was one pictured in the Brit. Museum of Nat. History that was a depiction of what someone thought Alexandria would look like and it had one of them only the one in the pic was a two ball gate so there was a smaller two ball arrangement with a drop ball dead weight on both sides of the gate instead of just one like on the trading trails. Hey the man got his toll one way or the other even back then! :-)