The truth behind the mysterious mummies of the Canary Islands - BBC REEL 

I’m from the Canary Islands and I’m studying History at the University of Las Palmas, and I disagree with that theory that says they stablished in the mountains in the first time, cuz they came from the sea. The first thing they saw once they came here were the coasts, they had to make their first camps there. Archaeologists have found that almost every of them had a pathology related to the sea: surfer ear or exostosis, so they had to expend a lot of time near the water. Yeah, the marine activities are important, like fishing, but from most of the islands you can see other islands, so you’re telling me they never thought of reproducing something similar to the boats that brought them here? And not only that, the chronicles of the conquest do speak about boats they made with the woods of drago tree. And for more proves, there are obsidian tools in the island of La Gomera, a placed where there’s no deposits of this material, just in the island next to it, Tenerife. How did this tools came to the island? Swimming? Genetic tests and Epigraphy are showing that canary indigenous were related to the amazigh people from Tunisia and places surrounded, the area of Cartago, where people did know about navigations. Even accepting they didn’t know how to navigate, it is imposible to belief that in more than 1500 years they never thought of building something to navigate the coast of the islands or even to travel to the islands they were seeing from their coasts. Our islands are destroyed by the production system our politicians have implanted for years here. The coasts are drown in concrete because of the hotels and touristic points. It is not wild to think that most of the deposits were destroyed in the construction of the hotels, or that there are even under them. There’s a lot of archaeological information we are not studying and we are making a very narrow speech.

From a kabyle amazigh Berber 🇩🇿ⵣ greetings to the all imazighen ⵣ around the world

Vive Amazigh Im Amazigh from Morocco ❤❤

The Guanche were long overdue to be discussed by historians and archaeologists.

Didn’t know Jack Black was a Spanish archaeologist!

Why oh why dont the BBC make more of these. Legitimate mystery

Why no mention of Pliny the Elder's account of King Juba's expedition?

The carved out silo caves look amazing.

In some islands like mine women were allowed to get married with three men at the same time. During one month one acted like the husband and the two others like servants. It was a way to control overpopulation on the islands with litle resources.

the word berbers is a little harsh they call theme self amazigh

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I think the calendars are where the shadows fell inside a particular cave wall each day. The model may have been placed in several places but one of them was where the shadows fell each day. No clue why I think that, except that I’m part Canarian. Someone should look and see if the shadows still fall on one of them

Absolutely fascinating!

As a descendant of the first family to ever be colonized by Spain, in the history of the world, please shed more light on Tyteroygatra (Lanzarote)... We're starting to see the island + people overlooked or outright lied about.

Wow what an amazing video

I don't think saying "mysterious" is an appropriate, because everybody knows there are mummies and everybody knows there were people... before the Spanish killed them to inhabit the island. I mean, it's no surprise to anyone, is it?

2:49 Ancient Hylians conformed.

Great! Best Regards from Portugal!

Beautiful.

0:17 Gran Canaria is where this culture found its greatest development because the aborigines of this island always had more influence from abroad than on the other islands. Not because in Gran Canaria they were more intelligent than the others... on the other hand, the best and most representative mummies are those of the island of Tenerife, which is why this documentary should have been shot there. En Gran Canaria es donde esta cultura encontró su mayor desarrollo porque los aborígenes de esta isla tuvieron siempre mas influencia del exterior que en las demás islas. No porque en Gran Canaria fueran mas inteligentes que los demás... por otro lado las mejores momias y las mas representativas son las de la isla de Tenerife, por lo que este documental deberia haberse rodado allí.

As I was kid growing up in south of Morocco, I used to hear stories from my berber grandma telling us that was a time when people flee to escape wars and death and they usually run to hide in the mountains or try to cross the ocean, I personally believe that Guanches found a way to escape to canaries and decided to stay there and build a life until the spanish came and killed them all 😖

Wow-those cliff face dwellings look exactly the same as those in New Mexico (USA) ; places like Mesa Verde (ca. AD800 or so).

Fascinating 🧐

jack black really out there studying gran canaria, legend

I’m from a place very close to La Fortaleza. I love it, I sometimes go on hikes there.

This Colonization needs to End...

The conquest of the Canary Islands was from 1402 to 1496, at least 100 years. It cost Spain more time than the conquest of America and many more deaths of Spanish soldiers. No wonder... The ancient Canarians came from ancient African warriors and adventurers and many were a mixture of ancient Vikings. They were tall, strong, extraordinarily agile and had an aim that never ceased to amaze the Spanish conquerors. The Guanches respected their women, worshipped the sun, the earth and knew the stars and their movements, which allowed them to establish eclipses and calendars. A peaceful culture but with great warriors who never surrendered, a magical civilization that deserves to be known and respected.

Yo soy de Gran Canaria y aquí hay una riqueza arqueológica impresionante que tenemos que cuidar y respetar para nuestros descendientes

Regarding genetic affinities, studies have indicated that the Guanches had genetic links to various populations. There is evidence of genetic similarities between the Guanches and the Berbers (Amazigh) of North Africa, which is not surprising considering the geographical proximity between the Canary Islands and North Africa. The Canary Islands were likely part of the broader network of interaction and migration in the region.

I know a little of the dogs that the conquistadors used on the canary islands. 'The Presa Canario is a Spanish breed of large dog of mastiff or catch dog type. It originates in the autonomous region of the Canary Islands, and is found mostly in the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.' In colonial times dogs were often used against native people that did not have have modern weapons.

2:51 nice triforce

Time to discover

Amazing. I'm 44 & I've never heard of these people.

2:49 Triforce 🧝

If there were 2 famous kingdoms and 30,000+ people in the 1400s when they were conquered, they are not a primitive ancient culture. Their descendants are still alive just like native Americans and the indigenous of Latin America. Essential relevant history! Thank you from a Spanish/Basque/Mexican/Irish American.

Crasias por la información

Not so much a "lost" civilization as an eradicated one. They'd know a lot more about these people if they didn't nearly wipe them out.

It feels so weird bbc covering stuff from where i live since we very seldom have content

Queda mucha tela que cortar

I vow to travel many islands as many as possible in Canaries and Azores, just sceneries in La Gomera and Gran Canaria are astounding 🎉😊

Finally some discussion about the Guanchos! The people from Atlantis perhaps?

I would think the Berbers simply paid a captain, who knew and had told them of the place, to bring them over. He would then contract with a few more captains as space required…

Their flight out was probably cancelled and they just gave up.

Guanches were Vikings settlements. Blue eyes, blond hair :) Vikings thousands of years ago reached very distant places...

2:52 wow ...energy chips

I wish they had gone into greater depth on their genetic composition

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I am descendant of the Guanches. My dna matches exactly to the mummies. I’m getting my dna verified and certified. Some people did survive when Spain committed genocide against my ancestors. 😢 the caves are empty because of Spain murdering them. We wish they would leave my ancestors to rest and not dig them up.

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"We know they were no seafarers because the conquistadores said so" - we HAVE taken into account the conquistadores might have been trying to portrait them as wild savages without any skills or culture, do we?

My dna test says I'm 99% more related to them than others on the website 😂

BBC talking about truth is quite funny

Why they avoided calling then Guanche! ?😢

Some of the symbols remind me of Pictish symbols.

...and NOTHING about their puzzling Pyramids? this report is incomplete for sure.

Berber was a name "given" by some romans for people(s) living in the maghreb region (i read). And does "los canares" relate to some ducks or special birds there, and are those animals still to be found in some islands or islets of the archipelago? And the tales of BBC reel or rare earth on the Azores is similarly interesting.

Azul from the roots of my heart to my Amazigh Brothers and Sisters the Honorable Guanches.Greetings and solidarity until the death,from your Amazigh Brother from the Rif!!! My Brothers and Sisters stay strong our Star will still shine✊️

Who then made the pyramid of stones on LaPalma?

Just more questions that could have been answered had our kind not massacred and conquered everyone

Just a hypothesis but What is it turned out the canaries was originally settled as a phonecian or roman penal colony of sorts? hence the lack of knowledge of boat craft??

What's with the triforce wrf

this Civilisation is named amazigh and still live in Morocco and that kind of bank was for storing food and goods and was named agoudar that's why a city in morocco is named Agadir

They must have been seafarers because my MtDNA is so close to the MtDNA found in one of the mummies starting with T2C1. My maternal ancestors came from "Indian Lands" or Awkwasasne in Canada/USA. How did my female ancestors get here if it wasn't by sea?

no images of the people. Did they look like Ethiopians? Egyptians? Moors?

Surely a lot more to be said than we are told here. If they came from North Africa around 1st Century they were coming from a metal using society but lost that and reverted to stone age. Presumably brought metal tools that remained in use until wore out. What other technology would they have known in North Africa e.g. grapes and wine-making, irrigation channels, flax cultivation to make linen clothes and did they bring any of these with them? And in N Africa would have known the use of coins, horses, carts, chariots and even war elephants. Did they preserve legends of such things? And did they all die out or are their descendants incorporated into the current population of the Canary Islands?

There is substancial evidence that many Puerto Ricans have Moorish and Berber blood (The Guanches) from the Canary Islanders that migrated.

Yo conozco un asentamiento en Fuerteventura no descrito en ningún texto antiguo.

Las Palmas island

What ever, it's close to Africa, to morocco

Where are the mummies? I only see skeletons...

All Scottish people have 1 percent berber and Tuareg tribesmen in them look it up they could've travelled further

A much more logical hypothesis of the origin of the native population of the Canary Islands. The Phoenicians have a history older than their existence of sailing in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. The Phoenicians were looking for lands and populations to trade with, they were not waging wars of conquest. They built ports where they came periodically to exchange goods with the native populations. When they circumnavigated Africa, the journey being very long, they stopped on a fertile shore and planted wheat, moving on after the harvest. Trade in the unknown areas was done by leaving what they had in exchange on the shore and receiving the native goods along with them being at a distance. Only if they agreed with the parity did they take the goods, otherwise they waited for changes in quantities or goods. That means they were peaceful and fair. So it seems that upon discovering the Canary Islands they most likely populated them with people from the Mediterranean basin, including North Africa, to meet their trade and supply needs for their long journeys in the area. So they taught them to grow wheat, to salt fish, to produce garum, which was very expensive, to produce purple. The people of that era had embalming techniques, built pyramids, so they were in contact with the Egyptian civilization. They could also come from the Mediterranean slave trade. Why is this hypothesis very plausible? Because it was later found that these populations did not know how to navigate (they were brought by the Phoenicians, good navigators), caves were discovered on the ocean shore used as grain stores, they had the technique of mummification, they built pyramids, they terraced the islands for agriculture, they had irrigation science. After the destruction of Carthage by the Romans, the islands were visited by the Greeks and then by the Romans. Let's not forget the olive trees found in the islands, the tradition of the Greeks. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the islands were forgotten and returned to their primitive stage, we could even say in the stone age, when they were conquered by the Spanish after more than 1000 years of isolation.

Whenever some nerd says “without a doubt” I have doubts.

are we sure they are Berber and not Daco-Getae? like the ones Alaric I brought later to Spain and built Catalonia (Goths-Alania)?

¡Gofio!

Canario Aborigine, an age stone society, has their roots in some small groups of proto-berber people. Protoberbers are too the ancestors of historical berbers, that were invaded, massacred, acculturated and assimilated by the muslim invasion from Asia in the seventh century. So canarians were, to a point, the only one genuine "withe" africans until the european invasion in the fifteenth century, and assimilated into the european spanish culture. The conquest of the islands was hard and brutal, and it cost, to the Spanish and their allies, more time (+100 years) and casualties (thousands) than the conquest of the major native civilizations in America. The skeletons of the aboriginal Canary Islanders have larger and heavier bones than European skeletons and the skulls are similar to prehistoric European skulls, sometimes indistinguishable from Cro-Magnon skulls. The old canarians were considered a warrior race, children were intensively trained for combat since early age and society was considerably violent, according to studies of bone remains from different periods, which show abundant fractures due to contusions caused by fights.

As Mr.Spock used to say.... FASCINATING 🤔

Los nativos de Tenerife son guanches,cada isla tenía su nombre y los habitantes también,no me gusta que se cambió esto cada isla tiene su patrimonio y deberíamos observarlo y llamarnos como la historia dice no como quieran otros,los únicos que conservan su nombre original son los de gomerah los canarii,de Tamara, nos robaron la identidad la lengua,también hay pirámides,momificaciónes,el clima no es el mismo en todas las islas,la adaptación sugiere cambios,canario conoce tu cultura reivindicada,leed el Tenerite,a los cronistas y los avances,me crié en un barrio independentista de Tenerife,y era casi obligado conocer la historia y he seguido,pero fuera del independentismo que no tiene razón de ser ahora,viera,gadifer,y más que han seguido estudiando y clarificando,topónimos antroponimos,significados,cultura raíces,saludos a todos

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So little is known about the Berbers (origins). . . very intriguing! Some say they were the people from Atlantis! That would make sense, if they were the ancient people who lived on the Azores and canary islands. . .and ten N Africa (Med)

To think. There were so many cataclysms that occurred. These people obviously were displaced. What if they came from Mauritania Africa. Perhaps the eye of Africa was their home land. After a cataclysm. People survived and migrated.

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Hmm, the goats, pigs, and sheep sure sounds like Celtiberian ethnic people that preceded the Spanish crown's explorations. I'm a Basque, Portuguese, Welsh, Salvadoran, and North African mixed person and based on my ancestor's records, people have been getting around not just as underdeveloped hunter- gatherer groups for longer than we give them credit for.

Un arqueologo Aleman se encontro en fuerteventura o Lanzarote unos esqueletos capridos (cabras) de 8000 años de antiguedas.

The Berbs had old histories that said that ones upon the time, we berbs where light or red haired and blue or green eyed.

2:48 perhaps they were refugees from Hyrule

Funny how they anticipated the Vikings or some European peoples to be the first inhabitants but as soon as they find out they're Berbers of north Africa she refers to them as :" these people" lol Must suck to continue to find these sophisticated ancient cultures turned out to be brown people.

Those same symbols on the rocks (around the end of the video) are identical to Arattan symbols, found on rocks in the Southern Donbas region of Ukraine, that were dated at around 20 - 30,000 years old. You're looking at an offshoot of the Arattan civilisation, that spread out from the Black Sea basin and seeded the vast majority of our most ancient cultures, across the European Mediterranean coastline, North Africa; the Middle East, Eurasia and the Orient.

I've read that there was evidence of human sacrifice. Baby sacrifice. Supposedly they would a baby off a cliff each year. I bring it up because didn't some ancient historians say that was a Phoenician custom?

they were the humans that Enki was hiding from Enlil, they were the first pure blood, also the ones in the Americas,... you better ask somebody!

Why haven't any of them ever entertained the possibility that, those people may've perhaps seeded the Berber tribes of North Africa and not the other way round?

It isn't correct to refer to them as *Pre-hispanic*, because such conception is scientifically wrong as Hispanics don't descend from pre-historic Canary* people. Scientifically speaking only people from north Africa an Mediterranean people. Please don't make such mistake. Obrigada 😌

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Results of DNA from bones or teeth?????????? who were they?

🧐 *Obviously* these people were Space Aliens!…

0:20 Spelled 'Civilization' wrong

It is quite possible that these people came from Israel, Vikings are part of the Lost tribes as i prove in my PhD essay it is also possible they came from Mauritania where Atlantis has recently been found. Further analysis with DNA can show this. Is it possible some have survived. .

"We know it was an "urgent" reason they left Africa? How was that determined? They took the time to provision ships for a long journey and ready to live permanently in a new, unknown location. Urgent? And they know unequivocally that they were from a Berber population? Archeologists are so quick to state implicit "facts" based on meager data and mostly fairy tale conjecture. Sorry to be so cynical. Probably they went to the Zahi Hawass school of Archeologists...

Read Graham Hancock.

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