Bosnian pyramid scheme

The First Post:
While today's Bosnian papers are dominated by results of yesterday's elections, many readers will be skimming through to check for news of the pyramids. Bosnians have gone pyramid crazy ever since an amateur historian, Semir Osmanagic, claimed to have discovered three of them outside the town of Visoko.

Osmanagic, a 46-year-old Bosnian-American who runs a company making steel components in Houston, says they are 12,500 years old and that the biggest of the trio - which, it has to be said, looks suspiciously pyramid-like in shape - is one-third taller than Egypt's finest.
If this is true, then everything written about prehistoric, nomadic, berry-picking Europeans is wrong.

In Sarajevo, Bosnian intellectuals believe their countrymen have grasped the story out of desperation for some good news. One senior diplomat takes a more charitable view: the whole affair, he says, is "a pyramid scheme without victims".