{"id":1472,"date":"2010-05-22T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sarmiento-de-gamboa-pedro\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:47:22","slug":"sarmiento-de-gamboa-pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sarmiento-de-gamboa-pedro\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sarmiento-de-gamboa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27176\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sarmiento-de-gamboa-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"sarmiento de gamboa\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sarmiento-de-gamboa-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sarmiento-de-gamboa.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pedro <\/strong><strong>S<\/strong><strong>armiento de<\/strong> <strong>G<\/strong><strong>amboa<\/strong> <strong>(1532-1592) <\/strong>was a Spanish explorer who has given us a valuable insight into history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/incas\/\">Incas<\/a>, with an important 16<sup>th<\/sup> century perspective on their Spanish conquerors. De Gamboa was convinced that the Native Americans were originally of European origin and speculated they were in fact the descendants of refugees from Atlantis, which he calculated to have been destroyed in 1320 BC<strong>. <\/strong>He referred to Atlantis as <em>Atlanticus.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Sarmiento also put forward the idea that Ulysseus (Odysseus) had travelled to the West Indies<sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>What is also interesting is that he was also one of the earliest to suggest the application of months or lunar \u2018years\u2019 to the problem of Plato\u2019s date for Atlantis. De Gamboa\u2019s book has recently been republished as <em>T<\/em><em>he <\/em><em>H<\/em><em>istory of the <\/em><em>I<\/em><em>ncas<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\"><sup>309<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>,\u00a0with a free English translation is also available as an eBook on the Internet<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150924142550\/http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/20218\">History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa &#8211; Free Ebook (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantisbolivia.org\/sarmientodegamboa.htm\">http:\/\/www.atlantisbolivia.org\/sarmientodegamboa.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532-1592) was a Spanish explorer who has given us a valuable insight into history of the Incas, with an important 16th century perspective on their Spanish conquerors. De Gamboa was convinced that the Native Americans were originally of European origin and speculated they were in fact the descendants of refugees from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,2259,179,4011],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-atlantis","tag-incas","tag-pedro-sarmiento-de-gamboa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67029,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/67029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}