Guimar Pyramids

The Pyramids at Guimar

Are their Pyramids at Guimar or farming terraces? This is a question that will probably rage for many years to come yet evidence is becoming more forceful that these are indeed early pyramids.

Discovered in 1998 on the eastern coast of Tenerife near to a town called Guimar, the stones had been dismissed over the ages as just piles of un-worked rocks and stone.

That was until a local started to take more interest in the rubble which in turn lead to a local newspaper article being written.

The article was dismissed by many Archaeologists and even the local authorities until the cultural expert Thor Heyerdal (famous for the Kon Tiki expedition) became interested in the structures.

With an expert eye and years of experience researching ancient cultures and civilisations from around the world, Thor Heyerdal identified that their was actually a methodology in the construction in what appeared to be random piles of debris.

Apart from the construction method itself the structures were not dissimilar to the Pyramids he was at the time studying in Tucume-Peru.

Thor Heyerdal then enlisted the help and funding of a local Norwegian businessman Fred Olsen (Fred Olsen ferries)  which lead to the restoration of one of the Guimar Pyramids, and the building of a museum on the site.

Subsequent excavation of the site by local Archaeologists based at the university of La Laguna have lead to the unearthing of artefacts that have been identified as having origins with the Guanches who were the early inhabitants if this island.

Further information about the Guimar Pyramids can be found here.

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