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The belief that Visoko was a cradle of European civilization and that the Bosniaks’ ancestors were master builders who surpassed even the ancient Egyptians has become a matter of ethnic pride. “The pyramids have been turned into a place of Bosniak identification,” says historian Dubravko Lovrenovic of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Commission to Preserve National Monuments. “If you are not for the pyramids, you are accused of being an enemy of the Bosniaks.” (via The Mystery of Bosnia’s Ancient Pyramids | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine
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