As for Columbus's ethnicity, "We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son," explained Lorente in the program.

Though the study can’t prove that Columbus’ crew picked up the disease and brought it back to Europe, the researchers do suggest it was European colonization that spread syphilis throughout ...

For centuries, Christopher Columbus was widely believed to be an Italian navigator born in Genoa in 1451. However, a team of researchers led by José Antonio Lorente from the University of Granada has ...

Christopher Columbus is widely considered Italian, but Spanish researchers have recently presented a controversial study that says otherwise (Image created with the aid of DALL-E 2) Whichever opinion ...

Why was the study of Columbus’s remains undertaken and why does it matter? The provenance of the man who made the European “discovery” of the Americas in 1492 has long been debated.

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 ...

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 ...

10/17/2024 A Spanish TV documentary has broadcast claims that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe and not from Genoa, Italy. But scientists want to see the data before the ...

Headlines in New York Post (“Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, study finds”), BBC (“Columbus probably Spanish and Jewish, study says”) and Fox News (“Columbus ...

SEVILLE, Spain — Conventional history states Christopher Columbus was from Genoa, Italy, but he may have been, in fact, a Sephardic Jew from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, according to a new ...