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I love your channel Matt. Your vids always make me think. I wonder what , if anything, is inside these pyramids. This one also made me remember that Atlantis was not just one place. Thanks so much for all you do. You are appreciated. 🌼
Isn’t it just as likely the staircases were put there for a more practical reason? IE. so you climbed them WITHOUT the sun beating down on your back? 🤔🇬🇧🌈♥️👍
The Azures also has structures, and of the psiodon cult, which is the heritage of a certain island nation, which they think these islands are left over from.
Outstanding video. If the Guanche people were building pyramidal structures over burial sites ( and they mummified some of their dead), and given their Berber-type ancestry, it hints at widespread North African burial customs in the distant past where mummifying the dead and building pyramidal monuments over them may have been a very common practice extending from Egypt all the way to Morrocco.
Thank you so much for including me in this! A friend just told me about your video. When I was on Tenerife I realised that the Guimar pyramids were getting all the attention because of Thor Heyerdahl's connection, so I wondered what about all the other ones, like those in the Icod area? I invited Philip Coppens to the island and he gave a talk in Los Cristianos with Sam Osmanagich, who he already knew, was on the island at the same time, and is known for his discovery of the Bosnian pyramids, which are also very controversial. There is a film by Raphael Biss entitled Savages In Foreign Lands, in which I have a starring role. Biss came to the Canary Islands to investigate the Guanches. His film is about this.
Hi! Great to hear from you! Yes, I read a couple of your articles, found your Facebook page on the pyramids and was fascinated. What a fantastic subject and relatively speaking, so little work is available. Have you got the archaeology reports from the 90s at all? I want to see detail and diagrams and really look at exactly how they dated the pyramids, the positions of the pot sherds etc. if you have anything I can read, please email at ancientarchitectschannel@gmail.com I was in Tenerife in July but with it being a family holiday with 2 little kids, I spent more time around swimming pools! Although we did go and explore Teide, which was amazing. Thanks for commenting and I’ll keep researching and try and use my platform to bring more and more attention to the pyramids of the Canary Islands. Thank you for all your work! 🙏
Thx for covering this. If you like a tiny bit of controversy, I suggest the following: -the recently destroyed pyramid in Australia -the ancient STONE pyramid in the US that was destroyed early during the settler period -or my personal favorite, the hundreds (maybe thousands) of cairns in the NE of the US labeled as early European settler cold storage despite not matching any techniques of that time, the use of massive stone lintels & the vast majority aligning to the solstice with some creating a lightbox effect at sunrise. Despite all this they've been (imo intentionally) mislabelled & unrecognized allowing for their destruction during human construction. The reason I believe it's intentional is due to our strict construction laws regarding possible ancient artifacts.
yeah I think most of the time an ancient site is destroyed, it's just because developers don't want to wait a decade for archaeologists to do their thing while their investment is losing 10s of thousands of dollars a year. From a business perspective, finding ancient artifacts on the build sight basically means any profit you were going to make is now lost and it's going to cost the company a considerable sum. after all business's aren't a charity and the profit margins can get tight. Then there's the systematic destruction to hide the truth about something. What are they trying to hide? I dunno they hid it already like 200+ years ago. And I'm not very clever, so I have no idea. Any chance you could tell me the name of some of these sites with the massive stone lintels?
It is my understanding that if you are going to conquer and relocate a culture, if you destroy their ancient history and replace it with teepees, bows and arrows, it breaks their will and keeps them subserviant.
Sounds like someone’s been watching too much America Unearthed, a pseudo-archaeology show by a clownish, sensationalistic, fringe theorist named Scott Wolter. In every episode, Wolter explains he’s going to investigate a fringe theory, he brings on a bunch of ridiculously non-credible fringe theorists, as well as a legitimate archaeologist or historian, who rationally explains the fringe theory is rubbish, and then Wolter promptly proclaims that he’s proved the fringe theory, when by every measure of history, science, geology, and common sense he has failed to prove anything. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of well documented spring houses in America from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in the days before refrigeration that were used in rural settings to preserve food in their cold interiors. Did those structures have settings that corresponded with the cardinal directions? Yes, of course they did, so that it would minimize the warming effects of the sun on the interior of the springhouse and its contents.
@thecaricature Spain are famous for mass genocide of South America didn't they wipe out 90% of the indigenous population and stole all there Gold, ,Shocking
People that sail from the Mediterranean to the Americas usually stop at the Canary Islands before crossing. Trade winds and currents. Prehistoric crossings cannot be ruled out.
Well, that depends. I think we can rule out a trade route due to the primitive navigation of the time. It was hard enough for the Spanish to get to the right place and while something like a Phoenician ship could reach the Americas, the chance of losing the ship would be extremely high. So a couple of ships, yeah we can't rule that out. But before the viking Knarr I don't see how it could have been a common occurrence due to technology. Now, there are better evidence from a trade route between Siberia and Alaska. It makes more sense too, it is a far easier journey and we have both genetic and material evidence for that. But sure, we can't rule out that a few ships didn't reach the Americas (likely by accident. The question is if one could have returned as well. It is pretty likely though that it would have been fishing vessels fishing outside the Canary islands. Before the vikings you basically only had the stars and sun to navigate after (well and the streams) and you were pretty screwed if it was cloudy. The vikings invented both the sun compass and the sun stone that allowed you to know where the sun was when it was cloudy which gave them a huge advantage for navigation. You also have the sea worthiness of vessels to consider. The pre viking ships were not really something you would want to sail out far in the Atlantic with. That is why I think a western trade route is close to impossible. An eastern trade route is likelier, China was trading with Siberia and Alaska and they had the silk road but the only hint of American trade Goods to the old world (not counting Siberia there) is those Cocaine mummies that are being debated.
@@71kimg It is a bit more complicated, the vikings had 3 basic type of ships. The famous is the longship which you are 100% right about. They also had a light fishing ship and the Knarr which is the ship the vikings did use when they reached Newfoundland, basically a trade ship also used by explorers like Eric the Red. Now, I don't see the vikings sailing from the Canaries to America though, jumping from Iceland to Greenland and then Newfoundland required a lot less water and food even if the journey wasn't safe. We do have reports of ships getting lost between Norway and Greenland, it happened. But my point is that a knarr was miles more seaworthy then any ship before it, if you want proof of that you can visit L'Anse aux Meadows, I would say that is pretty good evidence to back that up. It wasn't until the Caravel was invented that a more sea worthy vessel arrived. Note, I am talking about vessels from Europe and the middle east here. The Polynesians also had sea worthy vessels before the caravel.
This video highlights what I like about Matt's approach. Data is presented, and various, often opposing, hypotheses are discussed. Matt, points out supporting and contradicting evidence, and the matter is left open, as is Matt's mind. Matt does not run with a fascinating hypothesis, refusing to consider all other hypotheses and making cash by milking the fascination of people with Atlantis and Ancient aliens. No, like M. Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, Matt uses critical thinking and withholds judgement when it clearly needs to be held off. This is scientific investigation, and Matt has definitely become a master of this. Keep up the excellent work Matt!🏆🎖🥇🥇🥇
I lived just down the road from these in the 90's. The current pyramids are a modern thing, but the locals all say that there was something smaller there before and it was just massively expanded in the early 1800's. The oldest part (according to them) is at the other side of the site from the cave -and it's also somewhere the investigations never looked.
@@mightisright Probably very little in general. The weather there is quite stable for the most part. Hot, dry and minimal wind. When it does rain (not often), the ground there is very porous, so unless it's an absolute downpour it's not a problem. Most of their maintenance is probably related to tourists.
Apart from pyramids, there are ancient groves and mounds in El Hierro and La Gomera. The Guanche had such a rich culture and lots of resources, I wouldn't be surprised if they had built some rock mounds that were elaborated upon by later settlers that added more stone.
Me neither. I would be surprised if they turn out to date back to the Bronze Age. But then again there was a massive trade network across Eurasia. I mean archaeologists have found amber beads from the Baltic Sea region and have determined that a good chunk of the tin used in producing bronze actually came from Cornwall. We can’t discount the ingenuity and creativity of ancient civilizations.
I wouldn't be upset if they turned out to be modern, if someone could answer the questions: what were farmers doing taking the time to build such structures rather than the kind farmers worldwide have been building, for practical use, first of all? They're good questions.
It wouldn't be the first time ancient ruins would be reused and reworked. The Tenerife ones are much more elaborate than the other ones. Freemasons repurposing a site, with a cave and a pyramid is a very 19th century thing. There was that fad in Europe to build "follies" in garden to create false ruins and the Pyramid of Falicon in France is one of these Freemason follies built over an older cave.
I love Tenerife, I’m back there in a weeks time 😎🤙🏻 The pyramids of guimar are an amazing sight, they say that they are only 500years old but we all doubt that lol… I’m even looking at emigrating to that exact area on Tenerife 👌🏻 great to see someone talking about these
@@AncientArchitects I saw your video from Mt. Teide the day I got back from Tenerife in July and said to the Mrs I wonder if you’d go to guimar as it’s not that well known of a place considering.. I’m going back there next week and going to the pyramids as looking to buy a place around that area. The canaries are an awesome archipelago 👌🏻
There are identical pyramids in the Azores islands. The Portuguese archeologists that studied the place also say they were made in recent times by local farmers…
@@AncientArchitects - They're not related to Iberia, that's clear, but they're a local Guanche (Amazigh) development. I've see claims of dolmens in the Azores (which would have a plausible Iberian but very ancient connection) but nothing re. "pyramids".
@@AncientArchitects And in the case of the Azores islands, it is said they were inhabited prior to their discovery by the Portuguese, despite evidence otherwise.
I’m from the Canary Islands and have native DNA and can confirm we have lots of influences ethically but we all have colorful eyes and blonde to black hair. Like Phoenicians.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been to Tenerife back in 2004 or so, and I was genuinely intrigued by them ever since. The theory that it's just "piled up rubble from the farmers" never made sense to me, it sounded too convenient as well as ignorant (the story of the island of Corvo shows an example of said ignorance from a local neighbor!) to me. I'm really grateful that people haven't settled for such a silly theory, and I didn't expect there to be any other pyramids on any of the Canaries! I hope that there could be more investigation into these... best case, your video may help!
agreed, Matt! more research into these structures is needed....soon! i read about these some yrs ago but, lost interest when the "expert" analysis said " not so old".....now, my appetite has been whetted.....definitely deserve a more thorough look into their age and etc. i like the hypothesis of a culture from elsewhere sailing to these islands in antiquity..... possible, if not probable.....not 200 yr old agricultural buildings, in my opinion so, keep us posted, Matt! i'll do some research into this but, i value your take on any topic of ancient cultures....cheers🍻
I'm in the raised growing bed camp. Take a look on GE at the areas surrounding the main complex. There are hundreds of trees and plants thriving in the basins between the stone walls. These may be water management structures.
I did visit a pyramid in Gran Canaria some years back. The guy at the museum I also visited claimed it was around 1500 years old, he actually had some mummies in terrible shape as well. And yeah, it is about as likely that farmers built them in the 19th century as Heyerdal's theories. More likely is that the Free mason dude was an antiquarian that had them renovated because the ones in Tenerife looks in a whole lot of better shape then all the others. That together with a bit shoddy archaeology could explain the odd dating pretty well. I am not sure of the guy in the Museum in Gran Canaria's sources but he seemed to know what he was talking about (I visited around new Year 2008-2009) and he did have a lot of artifacts from pre Spanish times. We can of course not be 100% sure that the Free mason dude wasn't impressed by some older pyramids and wanted to build his own but that seems pretty unlikely to me since I would have expected him to add a bit of Egyptian flair to it if that was the case but if he was history interested, hiring some locals to renovate them wouldn't be that strange. We do seems other places getting renovated at the time and a bit later, like Newgrange in Ireland for instance. And yeah, it is also possible the dude added more things when he was renovating.
Especially in the aerial photographs I see a harmony that even European people in the Middle Ages had already lost. For me, the pictures correspond most closely to the South American terraced fields such as Machu Pichu.
@@knutblume907 The building technique doesn't fit though. This is closer to a Scottish Brooch then Machu Pichu in Masonry. Lose stones of different sizes without any mortar. And if the original inhabitants built it, it might well have been built during the late classic period or the dark ages. I don't think "harmony" is a good measurement stock for archaeology but I actually seen one of these pyramids and it looked nothing to a South American pyramid, not even the shape is similar.
Tinerfeño here (meaning from Tenerife). You are probably the first foreigner I've ever heard pronounce Güímar perfectly. It got me by surprise. On one hand, the terraces are a very typical occurrence among the islands. Farmers use them to allow creating planting fields where the terrain is too steep to allow enough soil for crops. The islands have lots of mountains and deep 'barrancos', kind of very steep valleys, so it makes a lot of sense to build these terraces with stone walls to retain the soil. But, these specific structures in Güímar are not for planting, they are too narrow and it wouldn't make much sense where they are located. Also, guanches didn't build mounds like other cultures did as burial sites. Deceased were buried in caves usually high ni the mountains. There are old stone structures that show that guanches did indeed build sites for religious and astronomical reasons, this is proven. What I would like to recommend though, is to investigate the Berber relationship and the mummies. Those are interesting topics. For once, guanches were berbers, and I don't think they have been asked about the islands enough. When I was in Morocco once I had the pleasure to know some berbers and I believe I learned more from history from them than I ever did in school. They seem to have populated the islands a long time ago and they still recognize and understand the symbols the guanches left on rocks here. So I really think we should find and ask elder berbers in Morocco and Sahara and we might get new information westerners didn't even consider. The other topic are mummies. I don't think there are many instances of people being buried as mummies, and guanches did it! This has always baffled me since its the clearest link to Egypt.
Conquistadors used the Canaries as rest stops/trade etc. In this video I can also see terracing, especially in the Ariel photos. Terracing was used by the Aztecs closer to Mexico’s mountains similar to what you see in South America. Slavery although eventually made illegal happened early on with the native Americans/Aztecs by the Conquistadors. I can imagine those slaves were sold to Spanish farmers on the canaries and terracing/pyramid building could have organically started to happen.
Fascinating, enthralling, interesting, and intriguing. Once again you have informed me about something that (for one thing) I had no idea existed, and (for a second thing) I would have assumed that scientists would have researched thoroughly by now.
In the islands of Mallorca and Menorca there are similar constructions, and indeed there is evidence of arrival of sailors of the Kingdom of Aragon to the Canaries since the 13th century, before the colonization of the Kingdom of Castille, in the 15th century. The balearic constructions, though, are of two very distinct periods, one modern and one ancient. The ancient, the so-called "talaiots", date from the 2nd millennium BCE, and are mainly funerary and watching towers, probably influenced by the egyptian pyramids. The talaiots were reused afterwards until the roman conquest, in the 2nd century BCE. They are typically subcircular, although a few are square or rectangular, and stepped. The modern balearic "pyramids" exist only in Menorca, are relatively smaller than the canarian, and correspond to the development of intensive agriculture and cattle raising. They are called ,"barraques", meaning "shacks", and date typically of the 19th century. This style of building of walls, in the balearic islands, is called "pedra en sec", meaning "dry stone". Anyone visiting the Balearics has seen them, particularly creating terraces, in abrupt slopes. These terraces are typically from the medieval Islamic period, in many cases, although it is also difficult to know if there are older examples.
You got me on this one, Matt...!!!! Such an amazing and surreal mistery. NowbI have to look, search and read like a animal just to get some perspective.!!! Thanks! And thanks to the community dor such an amazing contributions
You should do an episode on the Azores! There is some strange, and potentially REALLLY old stuff there, Like, made by the same peoples as the Maltese cart ruts. Thanks for another heater of a video even tho I aint watched it yet,
As always, a great, even-handed presentation of the subject. The ‘pyramid’ on Pico Island, Azores resemble the ‘pyramids of the Canary Islands.. Also fascinating in the Azores are ancient dolmens and other pre-15th century Portuguese structures such as ‘relheiras’ (cart ruts in volcanic ash) and a structure resembling a Columbarium
I have myself come across unfired Guanche pottery offerings on the slopes of Pico Viejo at 3200 m during volcanologic work plus I stumbled on the Santa Barbara structures in the north while surveying there. To me, these resemble the thousands of miles of dry lava fieldstone terracing found all across the island and widely attributed to post Spanish land clearance and agricultural terracing for irrigation. Remember the island is one large volcanic complex and there are lava blocks absolutely everywhere... Gathering them together in one place is likely the best local solution to ground clearance..
I visited the pyramids of Guimar, Icod, and La Palma some years ago and managed to film the journey. They are quite interesting places, and there are many other strange and fascinating ancient things on those islands.
@@AncientArchitectsThey are online but set to private because it is raw footage and I haven’t edited it for release on my channel yet (I will do that after I finish a series on the Maya first) but I can send you the links if you promise not to share them around. Is there a way to send you a private message?
There are ancient pyramids in Greece and by the way pyramid is an ancient Greek word meaning pyr-πυρ =fire +amis that means pot! The meaning is to put a pot with fire on a structure high enough for ships to navigate in the night or give signals to people and information about sertain occuring incidents about outcome of war fights or the enemy's coming!I don't know if the word is the same in ancient Egyptian language maybe because there were some Greek ports and cities.This was found out recently.The city was called Heracleion on the banks of the Nile's Delta that found sunken!But about pyramids in Peloponnese especially and on some islands are a very recent concern because of the many ancient sights that need exploring!I like your documentaries they are very informative!I wish I could go to the canaries islands.They look so beautiful!My daughter has gone and love them.Thank you !I believe pyramids are older than we people think.They recently found in Uzbekistan! There's so much we have to learn about our world I am old and I have a thirst for knowledge !!!
half of my cuban predecessors came from here. had a little ranch they called "El Tinguaro" : ) the general "cuban" accent is canarian spanish. -- i suspect those recent shards are part of a respectful "patch" job to maintain those beautiful lines. great show
I really like your channel. Thought provoking, well put together and not so far out in speculation that Ancient Aliens is using it as a headline. Keep up the good work
This looks like a "Bread fruit" growing station paid for by the East India company or the dutch. Each stage in growing process catered for from seedlings to vulnerable plants on to mature plants before being shipped out. The 8 stage pyramid structures are sorting stations were the potted maturing plants are categorised with smaller younger at top and most mature larger plants on lowest stage. It makes use of early morning rising clouds to moisture (air water) the individual plants. The stacked porous volcanic rock sucks in and traps the water vapour from these early morning rising mist clouds. Id suggest setting up a permanent web cam & data loggers for time lapse monitoring the site over a full season year. Also notice it geographical location between the 2 main avenues up from the church which leads into the main road down to the docks. Also it's just offset from the main rain channel. If you do terrain view on Google you'll notice this is possibly the best "Tree nursery" location on the whole of Tenerife but is now an un-used dead "archeological site".
It is great to know more about the mysteries of the Canary Islands and its history... thanks for your videos. Very old stone writings were found there, which could be Phoenician, Berber or for some like Professor Ana María Vázquez even earlier
Earlier? Like say a potential Bronze Age dating? I have suggested in an above post that the monuments could date back to the Bronze Age. We know that there was a large trade network that spread from Cornwall to Afghanistan and one of the places where people in Western Europe during the Bronze Age could find tin was the Iberian Peninsula, specifically the Northwestern part. So perhaps the Canary Islands served as a rest point for sailors from Cornwall and the Iberian Peninsula who were transporting tin to parts of the Mediterranean. But that raises the question of what happened to the people of the Canary Islands from that period. Did a pandemic wipe out the entire population? It would explain why the ancestors of the Canarian people found no signs of human life when arrived on the islands. But if that’s the case then what was the disease? And where are the bodies? Ugh…this is going to give me a bit of a headache. If anyone has any ideas please comment.
When you mentioned that archeologists think that the farmers created those just to clear rocks from the farming land, straight away it crossed my mind, what a waste of time and why? Farmers usually just put the stones around their fields to create walls.... Maybe the Stonemason that owned the land found the pyramids in a bad shape and fixed and reconstructed them. The core somehere in the middle might be the old pyramid.
all depends how many stones are on your land,what you are going to plant and the very special weather in the area...permaculture before the word existed...
Ah, brilliant Matt! We have had two long holidays in North Tenerife and been to Guimar. I have read tirelessly on whatever I can get about the Guanches. Look also at the "Ventanas de Guimar" (Windows of Guimar) there are some videos on here. This is definitely a similar culture, with mummification etc. The DNA of native Canarians has been shown to be related to North Africans, not Spaniards. But anyway, so far as the pyramids are concerned, one really needs to visit to see how large the complex is. I'm afraid the farmer hypothesis is total nonsense, what farmer in their right mind would waste time building pretty pyramids, and as far as platforms for horticulture, I'm pretty sure wood or metal structures would have been far easier to construct. No farmer ever builds structures that shade other areas. This is bonkers. There are similar pyramids in Madagascar, also. Definitely interested in this, keep going!
There are farmers in China who have piled rocks to make terraces of entire mountainsides. Farmers in Wales and Scotland build walls of carefully piled rocks for stock control that reach up and down miles and miles of mountains. Its pretty amazing how many rocks can be piled up by people with a bit of effort and a cause!
Strange how seemingly everyone forgot who built these. If pre-Hispanic, why didn’t they mention them when colonizing? If built by Hispanic settlers in the 1800s, did the families of the builders forget their recent ancestors built them when Thor Heyerdahl was there in the 1900s? Did they already forget what they were? I don’t know…just seems strange no one remembered why these were built.
There are 13 pyramid-shaped ones in the town of Frenda in northern Algeria plus the tomb of King Imedghassen in the town of Batna which probably date back to the kingdom of Numidia with similar structures, the Numidians are the ancestors of the Algerians and they are part of the large family of Berbers like the Guanches or the Moors
The Algerian "pyramids" are not such thing but tumular "beehive tombs" (alias "tholoi") which belong to the late Western Megalithic era, these with an Iberian or otherwise Western European root. They're late Copper Age or Bronze Age. The early Bronze Age saw a spread of Western Megalithism into the Mediterranean all the way to Syria and Jordan even (from where it would later spread into various parts of Asia, even to India and Korea already in the Iron Age). It was a good hunch yours but the Guanche pyramids seem to be mostly unrelated and, if anything, I'd look for precursors in West Sahara or South Morocco, from where the Guanches must have arrived to the islands maybe 3000 or 3500 years ago.
@@LuisAldamiz Those of Frenda in the town of Tiaret have a perfectly pyramidal shape and not Beehive tombs, they have been dated and there is documentation on this, otherwise yes the tomb of imedghassen is the oldest tomb in North Africa, it dates back 2500 years, some tombs in the Algerian desert may be older but unfortunately there is a severe lack of documentation, speaking of these pyramids I wanted to draw attention to those which are closer to the canary islands than those from Egypt or Latin America and my comment served more to draw attention to the origin of the Guanches which is according to DNA the same as that of the Moors the Numidians or Tuaregs, the Amazigh people means the canary islands to the oasis of Siwa in Egypte, their presence goes back thousands of years
@@Ziri0615 - IDK enough but they look like mounds and not strictly "pyramids" to me. Granted that pyramids, especially the Egyptian ones, are a type of mounds but a very specific design anyhow. The Guanches would be in the Mauri historical area rather than the Numidian one (let alone the Tuareg) but even there they'd be very extreme-peripheral, at the very edge of historical settlement (trans-Saharan routes including the Tuareg and the Berber precursors of Sahrawi and Mauritanians only began after the Muslim invasion) and there are some known archaeo-genetics (Rosa Fregel et al., "Demographic history of Canary Islands male gene-pool: replacement of native lineages by European". BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009), which are largely in that Moorish pool but also include mystery "European" haplogroups which should not be there: R1b-M269 and I-M170. R1b is present in modern NW Africa and could be native one way or another but I is a great mystery because it's widely acknowledged as the great Paleoeuropean patrilineage and in Africa is only found in some populations of Sudan (where it should not be either). This is the pre-colonial known Y-DNA landscape of the Guanches per this study: E1b1b1b (M81) - 8 - 26.7% E1b1b1a (M78) - 7 - 23.3% J1 (M267) - 5 - 16.7% R1b1b2 (M269) - 3 - 10% K(xP) (M9) - 3 - 10% I (M170) - 2 - 6.7% E1a (M33) - 1 - 3.3% P(xR1) - 1 - 3.3% Oddly enough, after colonization began, I-M170 vanished (it's a somewhat common haplogroup in Iberia, so perplexing) and R1b increased a lot (this is within expectations). The ancient Guanche pool also demonstrates beyond doubt that J1 in NW Africa is pre-Semitic (something I also claim for The Horn region and Egypt, only J2 indicates Semitic inflows in Africa, J1 is much much older).
@@LuisAldamiz i advise you to do some research on the Djeddars of Frenda, once again they have a perfect pyramid shape, otherwise the Moors were scattered all over North Africa they were not exclusively present in Western Sahara and Mauritania otherwise you are right about one thing at the beginning of our era Ibn khaldoun had located the cradle of a Berber confederation which is more commonly called the Sanhadja in the north of Algeria and it is from the 5th century that they are left to occupy the southern parts of Morocco but it is said that it is a second race of Sanhadja or Sanhadja of Litham, speaking of the Tuaregs they are also Sanhadja, they have been nomadizing in the desert for thousands of years, all these people are Berber
@@Ziri0615 - The term "Moor" comes from the Mauri and the Kingdom of Mauretania, which included most of modern Morocco and maybe 2/3 of Algeria (Sahara excluded), became a Roman vassal and later two smaller provinces (Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesarea). There was another part of Tamazgha which was generally called Numidia (which produces "nomad") and was more directly involved in Carthaginian and Roman politics, until it was annexed by Rome in the Yugurthine War. Later the term "Moor" (Maurus, Moro, etc.) became synonym of North African (Berber or Arabized Berber) and sometimes even used in the wider sense of Arab or Muslim. There's not a clear cut definition of "Moor" therefore but my point was that, within that East/West Berber duality of old (Numids vs Mauri), the Guanches should if anything be expected to be part of the Western subpopulation, of the Moors rather than of the Numids, and even within these, they should be of the fringemost roots, because the Sahara was not yet colonized in any way when they ventured into the sea.
I had no idea of the pyramids and this is the first time I have seen them. I think that the ancient peoples who moved to the islands maybe started building them from word or travelers that have seen pyramids in other areas and so continued to build them and the theme seemed to continue for many years and modern people just added to them. whatever the truth is they are brilliant to see and thank you so much.
It seems possible that the "piling up" of field stones stemmed from agricultural needs, since such stones impede efficient farming. The removal of stones from those fields would almost certainly result in piles, or mounds of stones. If the soil is sufficiently rocky, those "piles", of whatever shape, would begin to themselves take up too much of the airable land. As the piles multiplied over years of clearing, they may well have been used to build field border "walls", as is done in many areas. If the farm fields are sufficiently burdened with stones, those piles and walls may well have come to dominate particular fields, coming together to form unified, man made structures from which "terraces" could be built in order to repurpose that particular area. The farmers doing the work would likely have soon noticed the value of piling the stones in organized fashion to gain stability and secondary usefulness. The organized piling of stones will generally result in a shape that narrows as it rises...mound, or pyramid. Those mounds, pyramids and walls become part the "land" area available to those same farmers. Since the farmers were likely restricted to using their own fields , that surface area, in some cases, may well have been put to productive use... as terraces, housing platforms, observation platforms, etc. I suspect that if the walls, terraces, piles and pyramids could be dated vertically, a gradual development of the forms, over time, would show a progression from land clearing to productive use. Parallel research into the culture's agriculture/horticulture methods, tools and crops, property rights/land use customs (communal, or individual farming) and topography v/s population density is needed here.
@@thorlivingstone6873 My own small insight comes from much childhood experience clearing rocks from fields, hauling them to a "pile" and adding to that pile. That job was often given to strong children in rural Kentucky on farm fields freshly cleared of trees.....and for several years after the clearing. Rocks are bad for cultivation. During warm weather months, the county loaned PTO driven rock crushers to residents who could feed their collected rocks to the crusher. The resulting gravel was spread on the nearest roadway (gravel roads in those days) and those efforts paid the owner's county taxes for the year. A good deal all around...in a working by the sweat of one's brow sort of way. Thanks for your kind comment.
Its exciting to find hidden gems like these in Tenerife, also Dr. Sam in Bosnia has been busy unearthing structures that dwarf those 'built' st Giza. Even China has confirmed the presence of pyramid building. The point I would like to highlight is how historians and academics constructed what we are taught regarding our cultural evolution from the early Sumerians, Egyptians and South America's. The whole Pharaoh Dynasty explanation revolves around their Pyramid being unique and it's construction given as evidence of them being a more sophisticated and technologically advanced, superior civilisation. Don't forget that back in 1930's era when Carter was discovering treasures like Tutankhamun and capturing the public's imagination via the media, the Giza Pyramids were the only ones around and so you can kind of agree how the evidence 'did' appear to fit. A century later we begin to see how none of the above was relevant. There's no sign of an elite culture ruling the roost, in fact it's common place having a pyramid.
Does anyone find it strange how many civilizations do pyramids it is as if Human's have a pre-determined knowledge of pyramids and the solstices with a purpose like birds and nest or beavers and dam's , I live in Philippines last place I would of expected to find pyramids but there they are in Montalban a huge structure the layout reminds me of Indonesian Hill pyramid , the Tenerife pyramids look primitive but from drone footage makes them look very organized, more researching needed, wonder if they are re-worked over older structures the stonework looks crude and fresh also looks as if there is still some of this complex buried waiting to be unearthed, as a brit been to Tenerife on holiday damn Nice find Matt.
Ive been interested in farming lately watching a 3 generation farm making a section of land to crop engineering ie corn and soybean the outcome of which shows much better yield by planting a row of corn then a row of soy and so on . In my opinion these terraces from lack of a better opinion where best suited for the sake of crops but secondly you have to preserve your soil especially right in the middle of the ocean. Who knows maybe have great yields conserving soil and another tidbit is that this type of construction may be better for conserving water as well just an opinion. Love your work
It comforts me that there are still mysteries on earth. It speaks of a fundamental privacy that is still intact. Bits and pieces might be uncovered, but the mystery is still there.
As I start the vid, that first pyramid looks enough like a ball court that's my hypothesis: They were sick of asking the Annunaki to shuttle them back n forth to Olmec country to play Decapitation Ball. 😋
I dont usually say the "it looks like" argument. But it really looks Mesoamerican 😮 The dating have to be determined more definitively. They do look mostly intact. They look relatively recent. 100s, but not 1000s of years old. But again... Thats just the way they Look... I hope the investigate this intriguing mystery😊
Perhaps you could contact Dr. Sam Osmanigich of the Bosnian Pyramids. He is the foremost researcher into Pyramids in the world today. Perhaps he could help with some insights. Thank you for a lovely presentation.
I agree. He was my friend and a very great loss and shock to know that he passed away. I had invited him to Tenerife, knowing his interest in pyramids.
The explanation you described for these 'pyramids' existing ie. that they are merely the result of clearing the land of rocks is the exact same explanation given by authorities in Mauritius for the pyramid structures in that country. Man those colonialists from totally different parts of the world really took a lot of care stacking the rocks they cleared back in the day, they must of had a lot of spare time on their hands.
You can see that many of these are relatively recent. There do seem to be a few more weathered structures... and maybe some of the obviously newer ones are built on top of older structures.
Certainly the main site here appears to have been rebuilt. Nothing wrong with that. Quite possibly by a c.19th Freemason. Does it preclude an earlier, more rustic origin? No - look at Weyland's Smithy in Oxfordshire: if you dug there, it's a site from 1960. But we know it's perhaps 5000 years older...
Agreed. It’s likely to be older, maybe Bronze Age. There are sites in America which show signs of continued use over time. Gungywamp, up in my home state of Connecticut, shows signs of having been used from the Paleoindian period up into the Colonial era. Archaeologists have found artifacts dating back to 2000 BCE which suggests it had significance even back then. What it was used for is still unknown.
I lived on Tenerife for nine years and can tell you that most tourists that come to the island know nothing about the pyramids. I found out about the Guimar ones on my first visit to the island, when I was staying in La Laguna in 2002. I moved to the south of island at the end of 2004 and in 2006 moved again to Playa San Marcos in the north, near Icod de los Vinos. On one of my first walks around the area I was now living in I came across the pyramid in the Camino de la Suerte. I also found out about the pyramids in Santa Barbara, which is also very near the town of Icod de los Vinos.
French and English Neolithic tombs were sometimes not quite rectangular. The thicker end was a false entrance and the real ones were on the long side inconspicuous.
i would not be suprised if there were ancient pyramids and farmers that were also decendants of the indigenous people built more for both farming and astrological sites or even rebuilt old sites.
One thing that would mess with any dating of soil is the Terraces were built and used for farming even to modern day, that would be overturned every year or two. Would need a sample from under the works to get a good base date.
What do you think about the theories that one of the Canaries can be associated with Phaiakia in Homer's Odyssey? I suspect it was settled by Phoenicians or some other ancient Mediterraneans as a handy port on the way to the Tin Isles, but mostly forgotten about later as the tin coming from Afghanistan/Bactria made the route unnecessary.
They look like they had some purpose, but that does not mean that they were not built by farmers whether a couple of centuries or a couple of millennia ago. What I wonder is if the structures pictured have been restored and, if so, by whom? I wonder this because they don't appear to be as weathered as structures on an island would look after millennia, unless they are somehow sheltered from the storms that have definitely passed through.
Soon i saw the video this historical site reminds me strong about ones in South America , very strange feeling . I think that we need history update and reset
About a year ago there was a channel called "A history of..." here on RUclips. There was a series about Atlantis. Not only as a city but also as a kingdom. There, a series of facts about ocean currents and winds at different times of the year were presented. There it was said that the "realm" of Atlantis stretched in a circle from Gibraltar, clockwise to northern South America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Ausores and back to Gibraltar. And that the Mediterranean was also part of this "trade route". If it were so, it is not unlikely that the rich merchants built their monuments to show their wealth. Atlantis or not. Unfortunately, I can't find that channel anymore...
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I love your channel Matt. Your vids always make me think. I wonder what , if anything, is inside these pyramids. This one also made me remember that Atlantis was not just one place.
Thanks so much for all you do. You are appreciated. 🌼
Isn’t it just as likely the staircases were put there for a more practical reason? IE. so you climbed them WITHOUT the sun beating down on your back? 🤔🇬🇧🌈♥️👍
The Azures also has structures, and of the psiodon cult, which is the heritage of a certain island nation, which they think these islands are left over from.
Identical pyramids to these can also be found in Mauritius.
Outstanding video. If the Guanche people were building pyramidal structures over burial sites ( and they mummified some of their dead), and given their Berber-type ancestry, it hints at widespread North African burial customs in the distant past where mummifying the dead and building pyramidal monuments over them may have been a very common practice extending from Egypt all the way to Morrocco.
Thank you so much for including me in this! A friend just told me about your video. When I was on Tenerife I realised that the Guimar pyramids were getting all the attention because of Thor Heyerdahl's connection, so I wondered what about all the other ones, like those in the Icod area? I invited Philip Coppens to the island and he gave a talk in Los Cristianos with Sam Osmanagich, who he already knew, was on the island at the same time, and is known for his discovery of the Bosnian pyramids, which are also very controversial. There is a film by Raphael Biss entitled Savages In Foreign Lands, in which I have a starring role. Biss came to the Canary Islands to investigate the Guanches. His film is about this.
Hi! Great to hear from you! Yes, I read a couple of your articles, found your Facebook page on the pyramids and was fascinated. What a fantastic subject and relatively speaking, so little work is available. Have you got the archaeology reports from the 90s at all? I want to see detail and diagrams and really look at exactly how they dated the pyramids, the positions of the pot sherds etc. if you have anything I can read, please email at ancientarchitectschannel@gmail.com
I was in Tenerife in July but with it being a family holiday with 2 little kids, I spent more time around swimming pools! Although we did go and explore Teide, which was amazing.
Thanks for commenting and I’ll keep researching and try and use my platform to bring more and more attention to the pyramids of the Canary Islands.
Thank you for all your work! 🙏
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Thx for covering this. If you like a tiny bit of controversy, I suggest the following:
-the recently destroyed pyramid in Australia
-the ancient STONE pyramid in the US that was destroyed early during the settler period
-or my personal favorite, the hundreds (maybe thousands) of cairns in the NE of the US labeled as early European settler cold storage despite not matching any techniques of that time, the use of massive stone lintels & the vast majority aligning to the solstice with some creating a lightbox effect at sunrise. Despite all this they've been (imo intentionally) mislabelled & unrecognized allowing for their destruction during human construction. The reason I believe it's intentional is due to our strict construction laws regarding possible ancient artifacts.
yeah I think most of the time an ancient site is destroyed, it's just because developers don't want to wait a decade for archaeologists to do their thing while their investment is losing 10s of thousands of dollars a year. From a business perspective, finding ancient artifacts on the build sight basically means any profit you were going to make is now lost and it's going to cost the company a considerable sum. after all business's aren't a charity and the profit margins can get tight.
Then there's the systematic destruction to hide the truth about something. What are they trying to hide? I dunno they hid it already like 200+ years ago. And I'm not very clever, so I have no idea.
Any chance you could tell me the name of some of these sites with the massive stone lintels?
It is my understanding that if you are going to conquer and relocate a culture, if you destroy their ancient history and replace it with teepees, bows and arrows, it breaks their will and keeps them subserviant.
Sounds like someone’s been watching too much America Unearthed, a pseudo-archaeology show by a clownish, sensationalistic, fringe theorist named Scott Wolter. In every episode, Wolter explains he’s going to investigate a fringe theory, he brings on a bunch of ridiculously non-credible fringe theorists, as well as a legitimate archaeologist or historian, who rationally explains the fringe theory is rubbish, and then Wolter promptly proclaims that he’s proved the fringe theory, when by every measure of history, science, geology, and common sense he has failed to prove anything.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of well documented spring houses in America from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in the days before refrigeration that were used in rural settings to preserve food in their cold interiors. Did those structures have settings that corresponded with the cardinal directions? Yes, of course they did, so that it would minimize the warming effects of the sun on the interior of the springhouse and its contents.
@thecaricature Spain are famous for mass genocide of South America didn't they wipe out 90% of the indigenous population and stole all there Gold, ,Shocking
People that sail from the Mediterranean to the Americas usually stop at the Canary Islands before crossing. Trade winds and currents. Prehistoric crossings cannot be ruled out.
Oh boy. Another crackpot
IMO the fact that they’re called “trade winds” says all one needs to know
Well, that depends. I think we can rule out a trade route due to the primitive navigation of the time. It was hard enough for the Spanish to get to the right place and while something like a Phoenician ship could reach the Americas, the chance of losing the ship would be extremely high.
So a couple of ships, yeah we can't rule that out. But before the viking Knarr I don't see how it could have been a common occurrence due to technology.
Now, there are better evidence from a trade route between Siberia and Alaska. It makes more sense too, it is a far easier journey and we have both genetic and material evidence for that.
But sure, we can't rule out that a few ships didn't reach the Americas (likely by accident. The question is if one could have returned as well. It is pretty likely though that it would have been fishing vessels fishing outside the Canary islands.
Before the vikings you basically only had the stars and sun to navigate after (well and the streams) and you were pretty screwed if it was cloudy. The vikings invented both the sun compass and the sun stone that allowed you to know where the sun was when it was cloudy which gave them a huge advantage for navigation.
You also have the sea worthiness of vessels to consider. The pre viking ships were not really something you would want to sail out far in the Atlantic with.
That is why I think a western trade route is close to impossible. An eastern trade route is likelier, China was trading with Siberia and Alaska and they had the silk road but the only hint of American trade Goods to the old world (not counting Siberia there) is those Cocaine mummies that are being debated.
@@loke6664you would not like sail in the Atlantic with a Viking boat - so that kind of meh - the Denmark strait were very deadly for the vikings.
@@71kimg It is a bit more complicated, the vikings had 3 basic type of ships. The famous is the longship which you are 100% right about.
They also had a light fishing ship and the Knarr which is the ship the vikings did use when they reached Newfoundland, basically a trade ship also used by explorers like Eric the Red.
Now, I don't see the vikings sailing from the Canaries to America though, jumping from Iceland to Greenland and then Newfoundland required a lot less water and food even if the journey wasn't safe.
We do have reports of ships getting lost between Norway and Greenland, it happened.
But my point is that a knarr was miles more seaworthy then any ship before it, if you want proof of that you can visit L'Anse aux Meadows, I would say that is pretty good evidence to back that up.
It wasn't until the Caravel was invented that a more sea worthy vessel arrived.
Note, I am talking about vessels from Europe and the middle east here. The Polynesians also had sea worthy vessels before the caravel.
This video highlights what I like about Matt's approach. Data is presented, and various, often opposing, hypotheses are discussed. Matt, points out supporting and contradicting evidence, and the matter is left open, as is Matt's mind. Matt does not run with a fascinating hypothesis, refusing to consider all other hypotheses and making cash by milking the fascination of people with Atlantis and Ancient aliens. No, like M. Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, Matt uses critical thinking and withholds judgement when it clearly needs to be held off. This is scientific investigation, and Matt has definitely become a master of this. Keep up the excellent work Matt!🏆🎖🥇🥇🥇
Wow. Thank you so much for your words 🙏
I love Matt! And Poirot!
I lived just down the road from these in the 90's. The current pyramids are a modern thing, but the locals all say that there was something smaller there before and it was just massively expanded in the early 1800's.
The oldest part (according to them) is at the other side of the site from the cave -and it's also somewhere the investigations never looked.
Interesting! I’m trying to find an in-depth archaeological report - not as easy as I hoped
@@AncientArchitects how are you defining "independant research" independant from what? where do you go to get it?
Where did he say “independent” he just wants the actual report imho
Makes sense. Without mortar, those little stones couldn't last very long in any given shape. I assume they are maintained for tourists?
@@mightisright Probably very little in general. The weather there is quite stable for the most part. Hot, dry and minimal wind. When it does rain (not often), the ground there is very porous, so unless it's an absolute downpour it's not a problem. Most of their maintenance is probably related to tourists.
Apart from pyramids, there are ancient groves and mounds in El Hierro and La Gomera. The Guanche had such a rich culture and lots of resources, I wouldn't be surprised if they had built some rock mounds that were elaborated upon by later settlers that added more stone.
Me neither. I would be surprised if they turn out to date back to the Bronze Age. But then again there was a massive trade network across Eurasia. I mean archaeologists have found amber beads from the Baltic Sea region and have determined that a good chunk of the tin used in producing bronze actually came from Cornwall. We can’t discount the ingenuity and creativity of ancient civilizations.
I wouldn't be upset if they turned out to be modern, if someone could answer the questions: what were farmers doing taking the time to build such structures rather than the kind farmers worldwide have been building, for practical use, first of all?
They're good questions.
It wouldn't be the first time ancient ruins would be reused and reworked. The Tenerife ones are much more elaborate than the other ones. Freemasons repurposing a site, with a cave and a pyramid is a very 19th century thing. There was that fad in Europe to build "follies" in garden to create false ruins and the Pyramid of Falicon in France is one of these Freemason follies built over an older cave.
I love Tenerife, I’m back there in a weeks time 😎🤙🏻
The pyramids of guimar are an amazing sight, they say that they are only 500years old but we all doubt that lol…
I’m even looking at emigrating to that exact area on Tenerife 👌🏻 great to see someone talking about these
I’m fascinated now. I was in Tenerife in July but need to get back now asap
@@AncientArchitects I saw your video from Mt. Teide the day I got back from Tenerife in July and said to the Mrs I wonder if you’d go to guimar as it’s not that well known of a place considering.. I’m going back there next week and going to the pyramids as looking to buy a place around that area.
The canaries are an awesome archipelago 👌🏻
There are identical pyramids in the Azores islands. The Portuguese archeologists that studied the place also say they were made in recent times by local farmers…
Strange. But the same thing didn’t seem to happen in Portugal or Spain 🤷♂️
@@AncientArchitects - They're not related to Iberia, that's clear, but they're a local Guanche (Amazigh) development.
I've see claims of dolmens in the Azores (which would have a plausible Iberian but very ancient connection) but nothing re. "pyramids".
There are also similar structures in Mauritius.
@@AncientArchitects And in the case of the Azores islands, it is said they were inhabited prior to their discovery by the Portuguese, despite evidence otherwise.
And the same pyramids in Sicily And Mauritius too!
I’m from the Canary Islands and have native DNA and can confirm we have lots of influences ethically but we all have colorful eyes and blonde to black hair. Like Phoenicians.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been to Tenerife back in 2004 or so, and I was genuinely intrigued by them ever since. The theory that it's just "piled up rubble from the farmers" never made sense to me, it sounded too convenient as well as ignorant (the story of the island of Corvo shows an example of said ignorance from a local neighbor!) to me. I'm really grateful that people haven't settled for such a silly theory, and I didn't expect there to be any other pyramids on any of the Canaries! I hope that there could be more investigation into these... best case, your video may help!
agreed, Matt! more research into these structures is needed....soon! i read about these some yrs ago but, lost interest when the "expert" analysis said " not so old".....now, my appetite has been whetted.....definitely deserve a more thorough look into their age and etc. i like the hypothesis of a culture from elsewhere sailing to these islands in antiquity..... possible, if not probable.....not 200 yr old agricultural buildings, in my opinion
so, keep us posted, Matt! i'll do some research into this but, i value your take on any topic of ancient cultures....cheers🍻
I'm in the raised growing bed camp. Take a look on GE at the areas surrounding the main complex. There are hundreds of trees and plants thriving in the basins between the stone walls. These may be water management structures.
Wake up babe! _Ancient Architects dropped a new video!_
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I did visit a pyramid in Gran Canaria some years back. The guy at the museum I also visited claimed it was around 1500 years old, he actually had some mummies in terrible shape as well.
And yeah, it is about as likely that farmers built them in the 19th century as Heyerdal's theories. More likely is that the Free mason dude was an antiquarian that had them renovated because the ones in Tenerife looks in a whole lot of better shape then all the others. That together with a bit shoddy archaeology could explain the odd dating pretty well.
I am not sure of the guy in the Museum in Gran Canaria's sources but he seemed to know what he was talking about (I visited around new Year 2008-2009) and he did have a lot of artifacts from pre Spanish times.
We can of course not be 100% sure that the Free mason dude wasn't impressed by some older pyramids and wanted to build his own but that seems pretty unlikely to me since I would have expected him to add a bit of Egyptian flair to it if that was the case but if he was history interested, hiring some locals to renovate them wouldn't be that strange. We do seems other places getting renovated at the time and a bit later, like Newgrange in Ireland for instance.
And yeah, it is also possible the dude added more things when he was renovating.
Especially in the aerial photographs I see a harmony that even European people in the Middle Ages had already lost. For me, the pictures correspond most closely to the South American terraced fields such as Machu Pichu.
@@knutblume907 The building technique doesn't fit though. This is closer to a Scottish Brooch then Machu Pichu in Masonry.
Lose stones of different sizes without any mortar.
And if the original inhabitants built it, it might well have been built during the late classic period or the dark ages. I don't think "harmony" is a good measurement stock for archaeology but I actually seen one of these pyramids and it looked nothing to a South American pyramid, not even the shape is similar.
Tinerfeño here (meaning from Tenerife). You are probably the first foreigner I've ever heard pronounce Güímar perfectly. It got me by surprise.
On one hand, the terraces are a very typical occurrence among the islands. Farmers use them to allow creating planting fields where the terrain is too steep to allow enough soil for crops. The islands have lots of mountains and deep 'barrancos', kind of very steep valleys, so it makes a lot of sense to build these terraces with stone walls to retain the soil.
But, these specific structures in Güímar are not for planting, they are too narrow and it wouldn't make much sense where they are located. Also, guanches didn't build mounds like other cultures did as burial sites. Deceased were buried in caves usually high ni the mountains. There are old stone structures that show that guanches did indeed build sites for religious and astronomical reasons, this is proven.
What I would like to recommend though, is to investigate the Berber relationship and the mummies. Those are interesting topics. For once, guanches were berbers, and I don't think they have been asked about the islands enough. When I was in Morocco once I had the pleasure to know some berbers and I believe I learned more from history from them than I ever did in school. They seem to have populated the islands a long time ago and they still recognize and understand the symbols the guanches left on rocks here. So I really think we should find and ask elder berbers in Morocco and Sahara and we might get new information westerners didn't even consider. The other topic are mummies. I don't think there are many instances of people being buried as mummies, and guanches did it! This has always baffled me since its the clearest link to Egypt.
Excellent intro to the topic. At the end you raise the exact necessary questions 👌🏽
Great video my friend, thank you for sharing!
Conquistadors used the Canaries as rest stops/trade etc.
In this video I can also see terracing, especially in the Ariel photos. Terracing was used by the Aztecs closer to Mexico’s mountains similar to what you see in South America.
Slavery although eventually made illegal happened early on with the native Americans/Aztecs by the Conquistadors. I can imagine those slaves were sold to Spanish farmers on the canaries and terracing/pyramid building could have organically started to happen.
Muy interesante y bien explicado. Gracias por compartir cultura.
Fascinating, enthralling, interesting, and intriguing. Once again you have informed me about something that (for one thing) I had no idea existed, and (for a second thing) I would have assumed that scientists would have researched thoroughly by now.
I will be watching for the updates on this. Excellent video, Thanks!
In the islands of Mallorca and Menorca there are similar constructions, and indeed there is evidence of arrival of sailors of the Kingdom of Aragon to the Canaries since the 13th century, before the colonization of the Kingdom of Castille, in the 15th century. The balearic constructions, though, are of two very distinct periods, one modern and one ancient. The ancient, the so-called "talaiots", date from the 2nd millennium BCE, and are mainly funerary and watching towers, probably influenced by the egyptian pyramids. The talaiots were reused afterwards until the roman conquest, in the 2nd century BCE. They are typically subcircular, although a few are square or rectangular, and stepped. The modern balearic "pyramids" exist only in Menorca, are relatively smaller than the canarian, and correspond to the development of intensive agriculture and cattle raising. They are called ,"barraques", meaning "shacks", and date typically of the 19th century. This style of building of walls, in the balearic islands, is called "pedra en sec", meaning "dry stone". Anyone visiting the Balearics has seen them, particularly creating terraces, in abrupt slopes. These terraces are typically from the medieval Islamic period, in many cases, although it is also difficult to know if there are older examples.
The Spanish islands have fantastic history
Hey Gonzalo, where can i find those Mallorcan pyramids? Id like to visit
You got me on this one, Matt...!!!! Such an amazing and surreal mistery.
NowbI have to look, search and read like a animal just to get some perspective.!!!
Thanks!
And thanks to the community dor such an amazing contributions
You should do an episode on the Azores! There is some strange, and potentially REALLLY old stuff there, Like, made by the same peoples as the Maltese cart ruts. Thanks for another heater of a video even tho I aint watched it yet,
As always, a great, even-handed presentation of the subject. The ‘pyramid’ on Pico Island, Azores resemble the ‘pyramids of the Canary Islands.. Also fascinating in the Azores are ancient dolmens and other pre-15th century Portuguese structures such as ‘relheiras’ (cart ruts in volcanic ash) and a structure resembling a Columbarium
I have myself come across unfired Guanche pottery offerings on the slopes of Pico Viejo at 3200 m during volcanologic work plus I stumbled on the Santa Barbara structures in the north while surveying there. To me, these resemble the thousands of miles of dry lava fieldstone terracing found all across the island and widely attributed to post Spanish land clearance and agricultural terracing for irrigation. Remember the island is one large volcanic complex and there are lava blocks absolutely everywhere... Gathering them together in one place is likely the best local solution to ground clearance..
Another amazing video as always ty
Thank you 🙏
I visited the pyramids of Guimar, Icod, and La Palma some years ago and managed to film the journey. They are quite interesting places, and there are many other strange and fascinating ancient things on those islands.
Fantastic! Is your footage online? I’ll take a look if so
@@AncientArchitectsThey are online but set to private because it is raw footage and I haven’t edited it for release on my channel yet (I will do that after I finish a series on the Maya first) but I can send you the links if you promise not to share them around. Is there a way to send you a private message?
@@pyramidreview8664 What's your channel name, I wouldn't mind looking at what you've done?
There are ancient pyramids in Greece and by the way pyramid is an ancient Greek word meaning pyr-πυρ =fire +amis that means pot! The meaning is to put a pot with fire on a structure high enough for ships to navigate in the night or give signals to people and information about sertain occuring incidents about outcome of war fights or the enemy's coming!I don't know if the word is the same in ancient Egyptian language maybe because there were some Greek ports and cities.This was found out recently.The city was called Heracleion on the banks of the Nile's Delta that found sunken!But about pyramids in Peloponnese especially and on some islands are a very recent concern because of the many ancient sights that need exploring!I like your documentaries they are very informative!I wish I could go to the canaries islands.They look so beautiful!My daughter has gone and love them.Thank you !I believe pyramids are older than we people think.They recently found in Uzbekistan! There's so much we have to learn about our world I am old and I have a thirst for knowledge !!!
Another great job brother!!!! Cheers from Canada *: )*
half of my cuban predecessors came from here. had a little ranch they called "El Tinguaro" : )
the general "cuban" accent is canarian spanish.
-- i suspect those recent shards are part of a respectful "patch" job to maintain those beautiful lines.
great show
I really like your channel. Thought provoking, well put together and not so far out in speculation that Ancient Aliens is using it as a headline. Keep up the good work
This looks like a "Bread fruit" growing station paid for by the East India company or the dutch. Each stage in growing process catered for from seedlings to vulnerable plants on to mature plants before being shipped out.
The 8 stage pyramid structures are sorting stations were the potted maturing plants are categorised with smaller younger at top and most mature larger plants on lowest stage.
It makes use of early morning rising clouds to moisture (air water) the individual plants. The stacked porous volcanic rock sucks in and traps the water vapour from these early morning rising mist clouds.
Id suggest setting up a permanent web cam & data loggers for time lapse monitoring the site over a full season year. Also notice it geographical location between the 2 main avenues up from the church which leads into the main road down to the docks. Also it's just offset from the main rain channel. If you do terrain view on Google you'll notice this is possibly the best "Tree nursery" location on the whole of Tenerife but is now an un-used dead "archeological site".
Great job! Thank you. I learned something new.
Thank you so much, your videos and investigations are top notch 👍🏼
It is great to know more about the mysteries of the Canary Islands and its history... thanks for your videos. Very old stone writings were found there, which could be Phoenician, Berber or for some like Professor Ana María Vázquez even earlier
Earlier? Like say a potential Bronze Age dating? I have suggested in an above post that the monuments could date back to the Bronze Age. We know that there was a large trade network that spread from Cornwall to Afghanistan and one of the places where people in Western Europe during the Bronze Age could find tin was the Iberian Peninsula, specifically the Northwestern part. So perhaps the Canary Islands served as a rest point for sailors from Cornwall and the Iberian Peninsula who were transporting tin to parts of the Mediterranean. But that raises the question of what happened to the people of the Canary Islands from that period. Did a pandemic wipe out the entire population? It would explain why the ancestors of the Canarian people found no signs of human life when arrived on the islands. But if that’s the case then what was the disease? And where are the bodies? Ugh…this is going to give me a bit of a headache. If anyone has any ideas please comment.
Excellent vid as usual.
very interesting, especially the comparison to similar sites in Sicily
Very interesting! 👍
I did not know about the Canary Island pyramids. Good info. Thanks Matt!
jesus wept.....look up what a pyramid is.....
When you mentioned that archeologists think that the farmers created those just to clear rocks from the farming land, straight away it crossed my mind, what a waste of time and why? Farmers usually just put the stones around their fields to create walls.... Maybe the Stonemason that owned the land found the pyramids in a bad shape and fixed and reconstructed them. The core somehere in the middle might be the old pyramid.
all depends how many stones are on your land,what you are going to plant and the very special weather in the area...permaculture before the word existed...
Very interesting and intriguing.
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@@AncientArchitects Thank you for all you do😊
Interesting vid mate, looking forward to the results of your research. If need any help translating spanish, let me know👍🏻
Ah, brilliant Matt! We have had two long holidays in North Tenerife and been to Guimar. I have read tirelessly on whatever I can get about the Guanches. Look also at the "Ventanas de Guimar" (Windows of Guimar) there are some videos on here. This is definitely a similar culture, with mummification etc. The DNA of native Canarians has been shown to be related to North Africans, not Spaniards. But anyway, so far as the pyramids are concerned, one really needs to visit to see how large the complex is. I'm afraid the farmer hypothesis is total nonsense, what farmer in their right mind would waste time building pretty pyramids, and as far as platforms for horticulture, I'm pretty sure wood or metal structures would have been far easier to construct. No farmer ever builds structures that shade other areas. This is bonkers.
There are similar pyramids in Madagascar, also.
Definitely interested in this, keep going!
as a farmer, I agree!
i disagree.as a farmer on the canary islands..
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There are farmers in China who have piled rocks to make terraces of entire mountainsides. Farmers in Wales and Scotland build walls of carefully piled rocks for stock control that reach up and down miles and miles of mountains. Its pretty amazing how many rocks can be piled up by people with a bit of effort and a cause!
Strange how seemingly everyone forgot who built these. If pre-Hispanic, why didn’t they mention them when colonizing? If built by Hispanic settlers in the 1800s, did the families of the builders forget their recent ancestors built them when Thor Heyerdahl was there in the 1900s? Did they already forget what they were? I don’t know…just seems strange no one remembered why these were built.
There are 13 pyramid-shaped ones in the town of Frenda in northern Algeria plus the tomb of King Imedghassen in the town of Batna which probably date back to the kingdom of Numidia with similar structures, the Numidians are the ancestors of the Algerians and they are part of the large family of Berbers like the Guanches or the Moors
The Algerian "pyramids" are not such thing but tumular "beehive tombs" (alias "tholoi") which belong to the late Western Megalithic era, these with an Iberian or otherwise Western European root. They're late Copper Age or Bronze Age. The early Bronze Age saw a spread of Western Megalithism into the Mediterranean all the way to Syria and Jordan even (from where it would later spread into various parts of Asia, even to India and Korea already in the Iron Age).
It was a good hunch yours but the Guanche pyramids seem to be mostly unrelated and, if anything, I'd look for precursors in West Sahara or South Morocco, from where the Guanches must have arrived to the islands maybe 3000 or 3500 years ago.
@@LuisAldamiz Those of Frenda in the town of Tiaret have a perfectly pyramidal shape and not Beehive tombs, they have been dated and there is documentation on this, otherwise yes the tomb of imedghassen is the oldest tomb in North Africa, it dates back 2500 years, some tombs in the Algerian desert may be older but unfortunately there is a severe lack of documentation, speaking of these pyramids I wanted to draw attention to those which are closer to the canary islands than those from Egypt or Latin America and my comment served more to draw attention to the origin of the Guanches which is according to DNA the same as that of the Moors the Numidians or Tuaregs, the Amazigh people means the canary islands to the oasis of Siwa in Egypte, their presence goes back thousands of years
@@Ziri0615 - IDK enough but they look like mounds and not strictly "pyramids" to me. Granted that pyramids, especially the Egyptian ones, are a type of mounds but a very specific design anyhow.
The Guanches would be in the Mauri historical area rather than the Numidian one (let alone the Tuareg) but even there they'd be very extreme-peripheral, at the very edge of historical settlement (trans-Saharan routes including the Tuareg and the Berber precursors of Sahrawi and Mauritanians only began after the Muslim invasion) and there are some known archaeo-genetics (Rosa Fregel et al., "Demographic history of Canary Islands male gene-pool:
replacement of native lineages by European". BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009), which are largely in that Moorish pool but also include mystery "European" haplogroups which should not be there: R1b-M269 and I-M170. R1b is present in modern NW Africa and could be native one way or another but I is a great mystery because it's widely acknowledged as the great Paleoeuropean patrilineage and in Africa is only found in some populations of Sudan (where it should not be either).
This is the pre-colonial known Y-DNA landscape of the Guanches per this study:
E1b1b1b (M81) - 8 - 26.7%
E1b1b1a (M78) - 7 - 23.3%
J1 (M267) - 5 - 16.7%
R1b1b2 (M269) - 3 - 10%
K(xP) (M9) - 3 - 10%
I (M170) - 2 - 6.7%
E1a (M33) - 1 - 3.3%
P(xR1) - 1 - 3.3%
Oddly enough, after colonization began, I-M170 vanished (it's a somewhat common haplogroup in Iberia, so perplexing) and R1b increased a lot (this is within expectations). The ancient Guanche pool also demonstrates beyond doubt that J1 in NW Africa is pre-Semitic (something I also claim for The Horn region and Egypt, only J2 indicates Semitic inflows in Africa, J1 is much much older).
@@LuisAldamiz i advise you to do some research on the Djeddars of Frenda, once again they have a perfect pyramid shape, otherwise the Moors were scattered all over North Africa they were not exclusively present in Western Sahara and Mauritania otherwise you are right about one thing at the beginning of our era Ibn khaldoun had located the cradle of a Berber confederation which is more commonly called the Sanhadja in the north of Algeria and it is from the 5th century that they are left to occupy the southern parts of Morocco but it is said that it is a second race of Sanhadja or Sanhadja of Litham, speaking of the Tuaregs they are also Sanhadja, they have been nomadizing in the desert for thousands of years, all these people are Berber
@@Ziri0615 - The term "Moor" comes from the Mauri and the Kingdom of Mauretania, which included most of modern Morocco and maybe 2/3 of Algeria (Sahara excluded), became a Roman vassal and later two smaller provinces (Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesarea). There was another part of Tamazgha which was generally called Numidia (which produces "nomad") and was more directly involved in Carthaginian and Roman politics, until it was annexed by Rome in the Yugurthine War. Later the term "Moor" (Maurus, Moro, etc.) became synonym of North African (Berber or Arabized Berber) and sometimes even used in the wider sense of Arab or Muslim. There's not a clear cut definition of "Moor" therefore but my point was that, within that East/West Berber duality of old (Numids vs Mauri), the Guanches should if anything be expected to be part of the Western subpopulation, of the Moors rather than of the Numids, and even within these, they should be of the fringemost roots, because the Sahara was not yet colonized in any way when they ventured into the sea.
Very interesting.
Cheers
Good one, Matt.
Cheers!
I had no idea of the pyramids and this is the first time I have seen them. I think that the ancient peoples who moved to the islands maybe started building them from word or travelers that have seen pyramids in other areas and so continued to build them and the theme seemed to continue for many years and modern people just added to them. whatever the truth is they are brilliant to see and thank you so much.
It seems possible that the "piling up" of field stones stemmed from agricultural needs, since such stones impede efficient farming. The removal of stones from those fields would almost certainly result in piles, or mounds of stones. If the soil is sufficiently rocky, those "piles", of whatever shape, would begin to themselves take up too much of the airable land. As the piles multiplied over years of clearing, they may well have been used to build field border "walls", as is done in many areas. If the farm fields are sufficiently burdened with stones, those piles and walls may well have come to dominate particular fields, coming together to form unified, man made structures from which "terraces" could be built in order to repurpose that particular area. The farmers doing the work would likely have soon noticed the value of piling the stones in organized fashion to gain stability and secondary usefulness. The organized piling of stones will generally result in a shape that narrows as it rises...mound, or pyramid. Those mounds, pyramids and walls become part the "land" area available to those same farmers. Since the farmers were likely restricted to using their own fields , that surface area, in some cases, may well have been put to productive use... as terraces, housing platforms, observation platforms, etc.
I suspect that if the walls, terraces, piles and pyramids could be dated vertically, a gradual development of the forms, over time, would show a progression from land clearing to productive use.
Parallel research into the culture's agriculture/horticulture methods, tools and crops, property rights/land use customs (communal, or individual farming) and topography v/s population density is needed here.
One of the few thoughtful and clear comments so far,thank you for restoring my faith in humanity,for today...
@@thorlivingstone6873 My own small insight comes from much childhood experience clearing rocks from fields, hauling them to a "pile" and adding to that pile. That job was often given to strong children in rural Kentucky on farm fields freshly cleared of trees.....and for several years after the clearing. Rocks are bad for cultivation. During warm weather months, the county loaned PTO driven rock crushers to residents who could feed their collected rocks to the crusher. The resulting gravel was spread on the nearest roadway (gravel roads in those days) and those efforts paid the owner's county taxes for the year. A good deal all around...in a working by the sweat of one's brow sort of way. Thanks for your kind comment.
Its exciting to find hidden gems like these in Tenerife, also Dr. Sam in Bosnia has been busy unearthing structures that dwarf those 'built' st Giza. Even China has confirmed the presence of pyramid building. The point I would like to highlight is how historians and academics constructed what we are taught regarding our cultural evolution from the early Sumerians, Egyptians and South America's. The whole Pharaoh Dynasty explanation revolves around their Pyramid being unique and it's construction given as evidence of them being a more sophisticated and technologically advanced, superior civilisation. Don't forget that back in 1930's era when Carter was discovering treasures like Tutankhamun and capturing the public's imagination via the media, the Giza Pyramids were the only ones around and so you can kind of agree how the evidence 'did' appear to fit. A century later we begin to see how none of the above was relevant. There's no sign of an elite culture ruling the roost, in fact it's common place having a pyramid.
Thank you Matt ❤👍🏼
Thanks Lynn
The archeologist’s interpretation is extraordinary, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Good video
Does anyone find it strange how many civilizations do pyramids it is as if Human's have a pre-determined knowledge of pyramids and the solstices with a purpose like birds and nest or beavers and dam's , I live in Philippines last place I would of expected to find pyramids but there they are in Montalban a huge structure the layout reminds me of Indonesian Hill pyramid , the Tenerife pyramids look primitive but from drone footage makes them look very organized, more researching needed, wonder if they are re-worked over older structures the stonework looks crude and fresh also looks as if there is still some of this complex buried waiting to be unearthed, as a brit been to Tenerife on holiday damn Nice find Matt.
It's the easiest shape to construct. Easier than a cube, inverted pyramid or sphere.
Coppens is very professional and unbiased in his research and conclusions he gets my respect.
The indigenous also embalmed their dead. They had a lot of Egyptian-like practices, and also were blonde with blue eyes. They've always fascinated me.
There are similar stone pyramids in the Azorean Islands, particularly Pico.
Ive been interested in farming lately watching a 3 generation farm making a section of land to crop engineering ie corn and soybean the outcome of which shows much better yield by planting a row of corn then a row of soy and so on . In my opinion these terraces from lack of a better opinion where best suited for the sake of crops but secondly you have to preserve your soil especially right in the middle of the ocean. Who knows maybe have great yields conserving soil and another tidbit is that this type of construction may be better for conserving water as well just an opinion. Love your work
Cool
I didn’t get a notification for this.
It comforts me that there are still mysteries on earth. It speaks of a fundamental privacy that is still intact. Bits and pieces might be uncovered, but the mystery is still there.
Looking forward to more reporting 👍 great experience watching this one.. thank you sir
merry Christmas and happy 2024 🎉
As I start the vid, that first pyramid looks enough like a ball court that's my hypothesis:
They were sick of asking the Annunaki to shuttle them back n forth to Olmec country to play Decapitation Ball. 😋
😂 Cheers Dan
I have been there a few years ago. Very interesting. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe!
Thanks!
I was amazed by the water recollection system. It went strategically through the mountains and could be found in very steep mountain tops :)
Good job, please, go on!
I dont usually say the "it looks like" argument. But it really looks Mesoamerican 😮 The dating have to be determined more definitively. They do look mostly intact. They look relatively recent. 100s, but not 1000s of years old. But again... Thats just the way they Look... I hope the investigate this intriguing mystery😊
Flat topped pyramids could be airship landing points like bus stations on a regular travel route ;)
Perhaps you could contact Dr. Sam Osmanigich of the Bosnian Pyramids. He is the foremost researcher into Pyramids in the world today. Perhaps he could help with some insights. Thank you for a lovely presentation.
Phillip Coppens left us too early
I didn’t realise he passed away in 2012. Very sad.
I agree. He was my friend and a very great loss and shock to know that he passed away. I had invited him to Tenerife, knowing his interest in pyramids.
The explanation you described for these 'pyramids' existing ie. that they are merely the result of clearing the land of rocks is the exact same explanation given by authorities in Mauritius for the pyramid structures in that country. Man those colonialists from totally different parts of the world really took a lot of care stacking the rocks they cleared back in the day, they must of had a lot of spare time on their hands.
There is Great Archaeology and History 'Out There'
You can see that many of these are relatively recent. There do seem to be a few more weathered structures... and maybe some of the obviously newer ones are built on top of older structures.
There are pyramids also in La Palma, they are aligned between islands
Certainly the main site here appears to have been rebuilt. Nothing wrong with that. Quite possibly by a c.19th Freemason. Does it preclude an earlier, more rustic origin? No - look at Weyland's Smithy in Oxfordshire: if you dug there, it's a site from 1960. But we know it's perhaps 5000 years older...
Agreed. It’s likely to be older, maybe Bronze Age. There are sites in America which show signs of continued use over time. Gungywamp, up in my home state of Connecticut, shows signs of having been used from the Paleoindian period up into the Colonial era. Archaeologists have found artifacts dating back to 2000 BCE which suggests it had significance even back then. What it was used for is still unknown.
cant believe i never heard of this
I lived on Tenerife for nine years and can tell you that most tourists that come to the island know nothing about the pyramids. I found out about the Guimar ones on my first visit to the island, when I was staying in La Laguna in 2002. I moved to the south of island at the end of 2004 and in 2006 moved again to Playa San Marcos in the north, near Icod de los Vinos. On one of my first walks around the area I was now living in I came across the pyramid in the Camino de la Suerte. I also found out about the pyramids in Santa Barbara, which is also very near the town of Icod de los Vinos.
Thank you.
French and English Neolithic tombs were sometimes not quite rectangular. The thicker end was a false entrance and the real ones were on the long side inconspicuous.
Please make a video about the scoop marks on the unfinished obelisk. Love the Egypt videos❤❤
They remind me of the pyramids on the island of Azores.
Explore around the island to see if there is any hidden or buried structures. It might shed more light on that structure then.
i would not be suprised if there were ancient pyramids and farmers that were also decendants of the indigenous people built more for both farming and astrological sites or even rebuilt old sites.
ancient civilizations communicate and interact with each other.
Interesting. I wonder how many there were originally?
One thing that would mess with any dating of soil is the Terraces were built and used for farming even to modern day, that would be overturned every year or two. Would need a sample from under the works to get a good base date.
14:46 reminds me of the structure off of the coasts of Japan.
THOR Heyerdahl Started my awakening back in the 1970's
What do you think about the theories that one of the Canaries can be associated with Phaiakia in Homer's Odyssey? I suspect it was settled by Phoenicians or some other ancient Mediterraneans as a handy port on the way to the Tin Isles, but mostly forgotten about later as the tin coming from Afghanistan/Bactria made the route unnecessary.
Great subject. That extended final syllable made watching past 46seconds impossible thoughhhhhhh……
I'm interested, but can't do the audio.
They look like they had some purpose, but that does not mean that they were not built by farmers whether a couple of centuries or a couple of millennia ago. What I wonder is if the structures pictured have been restored and, if so, by whom? I wonder this because they don't appear to be as weathered as structures on an island would look after millennia, unless they are somehow sheltered from the storms that have definitely passed through.
I can’t believe they destroyed those cool ones with the circular room
Soon i saw the video this historical site reminds me strong about ones in South America , very strange feeling . I think that we need history update and reset
How about exploring the pyramids of the island of Mauritius?
The of temple complex layout from above looks like a airfield..Even I dont think so.
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The area of that complex is 3D scanned on Google Maps so it's a great place to "visit" from the comfort of your home!
About a year ago there was a channel called "A history of..." here on RUclips. There was a series about Atlantis. Not only as a city but also as a kingdom. There, a series of facts about ocean currents and winds at different times of the year were presented. There it was said that the "realm" of Atlantis stretched in a circle from Gibraltar, clockwise to northern South America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Ausores and back to Gibraltar. And that the Mediterranean was also part of this "trade route". If it were so, it is not unlikely that the rich merchants built their monuments to show their wealth. Atlantis or not. Unfortunately, I can't find that channel anymore...