{"id":19406,"date":"2020-09-18T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-09-18\/el-explorador-que-profanaba-tumbas-en-nombre-de-la-ciencia.html"},"modified":"2020-09-18T17:51:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:51:46","slug":"el-explorador-que-profanaba-tumbas-en-nombre-de-la-ciencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/el-explorador-que-profanaba-tumbas-en-nombre-de-la-ciencia\/","title":{"rendered":"The explorer who desecrated graves in the name of science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Domingo S\u00e1nchez saw the sea for the first time when he was 25 years old. \u201cThe spectacle of the sea,\u201d as he later remembered, speechless. He was the son of \u201chonest farmers\u201d who had worked as a goatherd in his town, Fuenteguinaldo (Salamanca), and had studied thanks to the efforts of his mother, a woman from the countryside who had a \u201creal addiction to reading\u201d and recited entire chapters by heart. of The Quijote<\/i>. On July 22, 1885, S\u00e1nchez hugged his parents, mounted a horse and trotted away. Ten days later, he sailed from Barcelona on a steamship bound for the Philippines, the remote Spanish colony named in honor of King Philip II<\/a>. The man from Salamanca began a new life as a collector of exotic animals for the Overseas Ministry. \u201cI was flattered by the idea of being an exploring naturalist, in whose profession I could see more than once in reality episodes from the novels of Jules Verne and Mayne Reid that excited me so much,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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The Spanish Domingo S\u00e1nchez detailed in a manuscript the thefts of corpses with which he accumulated a collection of more than 500 skulls in the 19th century.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19421,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions\/19421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}