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The Blue Badge Excursion takes you direct by
motorway to the site, just south of Santa Cruz.
He dedicated much of his life to researching the cultural origins of
ancient civilisations throughout the world, carefully studied photographs of the Güímar Pyramids, and put forward the hypothesis that they had been built in
accordance with the same architectural principles as those of both the Old and
the New World. The similarity of the pyramids in Güímar to those in Sicily,
Mexico, Mesopotamia, Polinesia and Peru induced Heyerdahl to come to Tenerife to
study the structures at the site itself.
Various theories exist as to the origin and age of the pyramids. Prior to the
arrival of Heyerdahl in Tenerife, two alternative theories were disputed.
Some
researchers maintained that they were mere heaps of stone left by farmers
clearing the land for cultivation, while others claimed that these structures
were related to esoteric beliefs. After Thor Heyerdahl´s investigations, some
professional archaeologists began to relate the existence of the pyramids to
pre-Hispanic civilisations on the island. |
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