Spanija, Tenerife otoci - Spain, Tenerife Islands
Six step pyramids were discovered in 1998 near Guimar, a town on the eastern shore of Tenerife Island, about 40 kilometers (24 miles) south of Santa Cruz de Tenerife - the Canary Islands. They are rubble-filled with facings of black volcanic stone and are the result of multiple episodes of construction. There are six step pyramids, reaching a maximum height of about 12 metres.
The six pyramids in Tenerife are quite small, like training exercises for those in Central America. They are found near Guimar, a town on the eastern shore of Tenerife Island, about 40 kilometers (24 miles) south of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Long dismissed by locals as mere piles of rubble, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl turned up and declared that they were indeed pyramids, not unlike those in Tucume, Peru that he had been studying.
Archaeologists from the University of La Laguna were contracted to do test excavations of a ceremonial platform between two of the pyramids. As predicted by Dr. Heyerdahl, they found that rather than being a random pile of stones as they had expected, it was built of blocks, gravel and earth.