Pyramids in Sicily (Italy)
The incredible similarity between the Sicilian buildings and those of the Canary Islands reveal the history of a people whose origins date back to the most remote antiquity. Were the Sicans the ones who built the pyramids of the Alcantara Valley?
The pyramid is a type of architecture present all over the world, leading to the hypothesis of a common cultural source that inspired these monuments. An ancestral people spread throughout the world, whose traces I am following for a long time.
Numerous analogies have emerged recently, demonstrating the presence of a megalithic civilization thousands of years earlier than officially recognized history suggests. There are two islands with virtually identical constructions that may provide the key to this mystery. The distance separating Sicily from the island of Tenerife in the Canaries is thousands of kilometers, yet if we observe the step pyramids made of volcanic stone in both locations, we see a common construction basis.
The Sicilian pyramids have been known for decades, but only recently has their antiquity been understood. In the Alcantara River Valley, on the northern slopes of Mount Etna in the province of Catania, there are at least ten pyramids, all featuring the same structure. They are about ten meters high and twenty to thirty meters wide, made of dark volcanic dry-stones meticulously arranged in an exceptionally precise pattern.
The pyramids have steps, stairs, and in some cases, a strongly elongated shape typical of pyramid temples like those in Mexico and Peru. This characteristic is immediately comparable to what is considered the largest megalithic monument in Europe: the Barnenez cairn in Brittany, about fifty kilometers from Saint Malo. Dated by archaeologists to between 5000 and 4400 BCE, this colossal monument (70 meters long, 26 meters wide, and 8 meters high) clearly shows the same structure as the Sicilian pyramids, beginning to dismantle the theories of some Italian historians who consider the constructions in the Alcantara Valley to be merely observation posts built between the 16th and 19th centuries. According to these historians, the pyramids were simple places for landlords to oversee agricultural labor, as if they had nothing better to do than watch their serfs! This is not the case, and the local testimonies claiming the pyramids were built in recent times, up to the early 20th century, hold little weight.
These are imposing monuments, as shown in the photos: it is not possible to build such structures without the combined work of dozens of skilled technicians specializing in fitting the stones. Sicily is full of dry-stone walls, but these pyramids are remarkable in their earthquake-absorbing capabilities, and local stories might recount occasional restoration activities. Indeed, the seismic function and general robustness of these sacred buildings, oriented according to the cardinal points, is common to other famous island pyramids, such as those on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
The Pyramids of Güímar are located in a specific area on the eastern coast of the African island, which is under Spanish sovereignty. Similar to the Sicilian pyramids, they were considered merely the product of farmers. However, they exhibit exceptional astronomical features discovered by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl. This famous Norwegian scholar visited the Canary Islands in the 1960s to demonstrate the possibility of crossing the Atlantic with boats typical of Ancient Egypt or Phoenicia. (With the papyrus reed boat named "Ra II," he demonstrated in 1970 that it was possible to travel from Morocco to Barbados in 57 days, using favorable trade winds and currents. This possibility was evidently known to Columbus and used during his first voyage to America in 1492.)
What amazed Heyerdahl and his collaborators the most were the megalithic structures that stood there. The astronomical language so dear to our ancestors was present at the top of the Pyramids of Güímar. On the day of the summer solstice, from the platform of the tallest pyramid, one could (and still can) observe the Sun setting behind the peak of a mountain on the horizon, passing it, and traversing a final stretch of sky before finally disappearing behind the adjacent peak. On the morning of the winter solstice, it is possible to climb all the pyramids by following the path of the Sun via a staircase on their western side. Heyerdahl, an explorer and not an archaeologist, did not speculate on the people who might have built such structures, but he stated that, in his opinion, they could be connected to the mythical Atlantis.
Atlantis? In this sense, the Canary Islands offer numerous clues. Starting with their location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the mysterious people, the Guanches, who inhabited them until the arrival of the Spanish. Before being exterminated or genetically dispersed through mixed marriages, the Guanches left behind archaeological findings and genetic evidence that allow us to know a great deal about this ethnicity and its possible connection to the people who built the Sicilian pyramids.
The Guanches were known since ancient times by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who discovered the Canaries during their voyages. This people had strongly Caucasian features of Cro-Magnon origin: tall, with white skin and blonde or red hair. The Guanches lived in caves on the mountain slopes but had excellent craftsmanship skills. A peaceful, matriarchal people, proud of their freedom and their relationship with nature, they worshipped stellar deities, a Mother Goddess, and the Sun God, similar to the Egyptians, and practiced mummification.
According to the most established theory, supported by mitochondrial DNA evidence, the Guanches were closely related to the Berbers of North Africa. These populations are still representatives of a primordial Indo-European lineage. The Cro-Magnon variant of Homo sapiens sapiens indeed originated in Africa around 50,000 years ago and spread to Asia and Europe starting about 40,000 years ago. In North Africa, people who would later become Berbers crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and settled in Spain, giving rise to the pre-Indo-European Ligurian civilization. Similarly, other pre-Berber people crossed the stretch of sea between the Moroccan coast and the Canaries, giving rise to the Guanches.
Is this theory too extreme? Certainly, in Europe, there were at least two migratory currents: one through Spain and the Mediterranean coast to Italy and the second through the Middle East and the Balkans. Both currents, if not the same population, carried advanced astronomical and religious knowledge and systematically erected massive megaliths and semi-natural pyramids in specific locations. The same may have happened in the Canaries, where this primordial people remained isolated, unable to engage in commercial and cultural exchanges.
The Guanches may have retained in their myths and customs the memory of the First People who gave rise to megalithic civilization, without evolving industrially and remaining in natural harmony with their environment. After all, the Canaries are a paradise in this sense, with abundant food and water, secure shelters, and wood for fuel. What more would they need?
The Guanche populations on the various islands quickly lost their ability to navigate, each remaining in a sort of enclave. While contact between the islands was possible, long-range commercial exchanges were certainly not feasible (not even with America within reach). The arrival of the Carthaginians did not change the lives of the Guanches, nor did the Romans, who called the Canaries the Fortunate Isles. Pliny the Elder described them extensively but did not mention any people, only the discovery by Latin sailors of megalithic temples resembling dolmens. Evidently, the Guanches considered the visitors dangerous enemies and stayed hidden in their inaccessible caves. Who could blame them?
After centuries of oblivion, the Canaries were rediscovered by Genoese navigators and Templars towards the end of the 13th century.
The famous writer Giovanni Boccaccio spoke extensively about this rediscovery and described the Guanches in detail, before the Spanish invasions of the 15th century wiped out traces of this mysterious people. But what connects the pyramids of Güímar to the Guanches? They were certainly not built by the Guanches themselves, but likely by their ancestors. Indeed, a Guanche settlement was found inside one of the pyramids at Güímar, indicating that the site was known and inhabited.
An ancient ethnic base, tens of thousands of years old, connects us to the Sicani, the first inhabitants of Sicily. History teaches us that the Sicani, wrongly considered by some not to be an Indo-European people, inhabited the area south of Spain corresponding roughly to modern Andalusia.
According to historians, the Sicani, after clashing with the indigenous Ligurian populations, migrated to Sicily around 3000 BCE.
Numerous studies on the Sicani exist, the most interesting of which suggests that, contrary to common belief, there are strong physical and genetic similarities between these early Sicilians and the Berbers. Once again, the white population of Cro-Magnon origin in North Africa appears closely related to the Sicani, who were originally from southern Spain, just a short distance from Africa.
In prehistoric times, before the end of the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago, Sicily was much closer to Africa due to lower sea levels, making direct colonization from Tunisia to the triangular island possible.
It should also be noted that the Sicani and Ligurians had a common settlement nucleus in the area that would become the Eternal City. The two peoples considered themselves brothers of the same lineage: the Roman settlement had significant roles in uniting the Ligurian lands to the north and the Sicanian lands to the south.
Given the strong evidence of cave dwellings among both Ligurian and Sicanian peoples, it raises the question of whether these early Mediterranean inhabitants were a homogeneous people. The caves of Monte Olgisio in the province of Piacenza (Italy), those of Pantalica in the Hyblaean Mountains (Italy), and those of Cassibile near Syracuse (Italy) are just a few examples of identical dwelling structures. Specifically, these are caves and grottos often carved into cliffs and precipices.
Similar troglodytic structures are found in the Canary Islands and other African regions, such as the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and the Bandiagara cliffs in Mali, inhabited by the Dogon. Similarities can also be seen in caves throughout Asia.
However, this Berber-origin people has further branches. The Ligurians were named by the Greeks, but their original name was Libui or Libi, which bears an incredible resemblance to the name Libya, suggesting they might have been indigenous to that region. Regardless, they were certainly the first inhabitants of Italy, given their presence around 20-25,000 BCE in the region named after them. The Berbers have populated North Africa for at least 40,000 years, and the Sicani probably occupied Sicily much earlier than historians have suggested: here is the people who built the pyramids! In Sicily, certainly, but perhaps not only there.
Evidence from the Bosnian area of Visoko points to pyramids that are 36,000 years old, and nothing prevents us from seeing similarities with the Egyptian people, who were multi-ethnic but had strong Indo-European characteristics in some of their pharaohs (the most evident example being Ramses II, who was notably tall and had red hair).
In any case, the Berber genetic affinities of the Guanches, Sicani, Iberians, Ligurians, and many other primordial peoples should remind us that the testimonies from that incredibly ancient era are still vivid and present. It is only mental laziness or excessive caution that prevents us from seeing the megalithic traces.
What about the Pyramid of Pietraperzia? Located in the heart of Sicily, in the province of Enna, it is a rectangular structure, 55 meters long, 30 meters wide, and 13 meters high. Nearby, there are traces of inhabited caves, flint-working workshops, four megalithic staircases carved into the rock oriented according to the cardinal points, and a stone throne similar to those found in France and Spain, used for propitiatory and fertility rituals.
The structure, like those in Tenerife and the Alcantara Valley, has terraced steps and is surrounded by a vast circular area that exemplifies the sense of astronomical symbols (the pyramid's connection to the cycle of the Universe).
It is necessary for the obscurantists to set aside their medievalist bias and attribute these structures to the correct era, as they are gradually being discovered throughout Sicily.
