It was found in 1992 near a mountain known as Montaña de las Flores (Mountain of the Flowers) in the municipality of El Tanque, located in the northwestern part of Tenerife, Canary Islands.

The Zanata Stone is considered to depict a kind of fish.

According to Rafael Gonzalez Antón, the director of the Archaeological Museum of Tenerife, its characters appear to be in Tifinagh.

The latter alphabet is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber script, and is used today by the Tuareg.

[2] According to Dr. Renata Springer Bunk and doctoral student Irma Mora Aguiar, it is a forgery.