3000 years is a little more realistic, although why has Osmanagic ever mentioned these ridiculous 12000 and 27000 year estimates at all?
These links quote him as giving those dates
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com...s.php?id=53968
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/...bosnia_07.html
Quote:
Mr. Osmanagić concluded that under the present hill of Visočica hides a stairs-like pyramid, about 12,000 years old. Osmanagić, who intensively researched on pyramids in Americas, Asia and Africa for the last 15 years and wrote several books on the subject, says he's quite sure he found the first pyramid in Europe, which is quite similar to ones in the Southern America.
He believes that the project would completely change Bosnia's significance in the world of archeology. On the top of "Bosnian pyramid of Sun" was a temple, built by pre-Illyrians, people who lived, according to Osmanagić, 27,000 years ago.
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Now it is certainly possible that someone has misquoted him, and mixed the dates up; then the Internet has picked up and repeated the mistake. I would think it pretty strange if Osmanagic really said this in the first place, as it seems to imply that the sun temple was built 27000 years ago on top of a 12000 year old pyramid (not a bad trick).
But if he is going for a relatively sober 3000 b.p. date then it seems not impossible after all.
If this is an artificial mound it is considerably larger than the previous holder of the 'largest mound in Europe' title, Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.
http://www.stonepages.com/england/silburyhill.html
Silbury hill is 4000 years old, but only 130 feet high as opposed to 700 metres.