When not getting bombarded by Nigerian princes and spammers trying to sell me penis pills, my UMBC.edu email address also turns up the occasional pseudoscientific scam.
What’s the most active archaeological site in the world?
Over 500 volunteers and 45 archaeologists from 30 countries and 6 continents were working together in Southern Europe from June 2010 to the beginning of October 2010. Prime minister visited them several times, ministers, ambassadors, artists, tens of thousands tourists. Volunteers were given the opportunity to take part in exciting new project and actually discover archaeological artifacts that will forever change mainstream view of human history. Of all places, they were working in tiny country of Bosnia.
Instead of war, violence, and negative vibrations, hundreds of volunteers experienced beautiful country, hospitability of locals and pristine archaeological sites. They became part of the Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids project with it’s unique combination of science, culture and archaeological tourism.
Non profit “Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun” Foundation provided accommodation and meals for the volunteers. In return, they became good-will ambassadors in Budapest, Miami, Cairo, Amsterdam, Leeds, Milan, Zagreb, Barcelona, Belgrade and other cities.
To became a part of this project in 2011, fill up the application at: www.bosnianpyramidofthesun.com
What? Pyramids in Bosnia? I missed that is history class. This is surely an earth shattering discovery that will rewrite human history, or…
...it's a pointy hill
These Bosnian “pyramids” are thoroughly trounced by Brian Dunning, who produces the spectacular Skeptoid podcast.
There are lots of real archeological projects all over the world that need volunteers. Help them out instead of supporting pseudoscientific goofballs tearing up a scenic hillside in the Balkans. 
Oh yeah, a historian gave an anthro dept seminar on ‘pseudoarchaeology’ (awesome title, must admit) once, and used the Bosnian “pyramids” as a case study of how pseudoscience can go VERY wrong, particularly combined with greed and national pride. It’s amazing how geological formations can have an eerie appearance of design sometimes, especially to our pattern-obsessed primate eyes
After the talk I mentioned it was ‘comforting’ to know we biologists are not alone in facing an onslaught of pseudoscience, and that just like the communication/outreach problems by the archaeologists, we also suck at communicating our stuff… everyone was impressed by the ‘connection’ and apparently never noticed before. But yeah, creationism, homeopathy, pseudoarcheology… same thing, really: greed motivating sly charlatans to prey on the uneducated public and their perfectly understandable wishes for easy solutions and an exciting fantasy reality, wishes that are not properly addressed by academic outreach…
http://skepticwonder.fieldofscience.com
That was a nasty episode – I was not aware it was still going on, I thought it was over. Check out the links inside this old post of mine ot see some of the virulence in the comments…
http://blog.coturnix.org