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A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe. Spanish researchers announced their ...

As for Columbus’ genetic background, the scientist played coy when pressed about what the DNA tests revealed. Columbus famously sailed for Spain in 1492, but historians have debated whether the ...

“The recent DNA evidence regarding Columbus is very interesting and helps to illuminate his biography and the era in which he lived. I would offer one caveat, though: While it indicates that ...

Spanish scientists announced in a new documentary that first aired on Saturday that DNA analysis shows the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe. The ...

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

DNA samples were taken in 2003 from the bones of Columbus - known in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón - and his son Hernando More than five centuries after he re-shaped history by opening up the New ...

To discover that Christopher Columbus, long whispered to have Jewish heritage, had markers of Sephardic DNA is to me about as monumental as learning the Earth is round circa 1492.

Studies of Columbus’s DNA started in 2003, the year his remains were exhumed from the catacombs of Seville’s Cathedral by Granada University forensic medicine professor, José Antonio Lorente ...

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe.. Spanish researchers announced their ...