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1
THE
RISING
 
SECRETS
OF THE
KRALUPI VALLEY
 
THE VILLAGE OF GINJEMODERN VILLAS & ANCIENT TEMPLES
PRELIMINARY INTRODUCTION OF SITE N° 1 BY NENAD DJURDJEVIĆ
Photo
: A modern villa in
Ginje
,
Kralupi
valley, near Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 
 
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In a small village called
Ginje,
in the vicinity of 
Visoko
, were reported accidentalarchaeological discoveries of great importance. We went to see.
Photo
: View onto the
Kralupi
valley; Bosnian pyramid of the Dragon (left) and Sun in the background
J
ust ten minutes of driving, about four kilometers south-east from
Visoko
, situated in the heart of the
Kralupi
valley, lies the small village of 
Ginje
. The
Kralupi
valley extends out into thegreen space for several kilometers towards Sarajevo. Surrounded by refreshingly green hillsand small creeks, the village of 
Ginje
, a village of a few hundreds inhabitants, seems to open anew page in Bosnian history by revealing the traces of prehistoric monumental buildingshidden beneath apparently “insignificant hills”. The team composed by Dr. Aly Barakat, Dr.Abu Bakr Moussa, Faris Ličina, Maxim Yakovenko, Gabriele Lukacs & Co. and me went to visit the place in order to investigate the truthfulness of what architect Faris Ličina has reportedpreviously to us.A successful Bosnian immigrant, who lives and works in Italy, recently built a gorgeous villajust next to the main road that passes through the village of 
Ginje
. The owner, who purchasedthe hill from a farmer who lives in the village, engaged a local construction company for thebuilding of the villa. The preliminary works consisted in cleaning the hillslope from vegetationand dirt removal from the southeastern portion of the hill starting from its base. According tothe owner’s mother, who assisted since the beginning at the excavation works, the workersencountered problems in removing the soil immediately at the base of hillslope where theycame across a row of megalithic stone blocks. After having removed the first row of stoneblocks, the workers thought the problem was solved, but very quickly they faced the samedifficulty in proceeding forward, because after the first row of stone blocks there was anotherone, and another, and another… raising stepwise in accordance with angle of hillslope. At acertain point the workers also came across a skull, then two graves with skeletons and atombstone (
stećak 
). After having dug into the hill for about 30-40 meters, and having carriedaway more then ten truckloads of stone blocks, the owner was forced to stop definitely theexcavation works because digging into the hill became too laborious and expensive.
 
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Photo:
Scenario at the beginning of cleaning works, after the vegetation has all been removed; before theexcavation works started.
Photo:
The last pile of man-shaped sandstone and breccia-conglomerate blocks beside the villa
Sandstone blockBreccia block
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