A recently televised documentary in Spain rekindles competing versions of the famed explorer's origins, but the scientific ...

Columbus led the Spain Empire's exploration of the Americas ... and with traces of DNA consistent with a Jewish origin. "We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient.

The research aims to resolve long-standing uncertainty surrounding Columbus' background. Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as traditionally believed, but possibly a Sephardic ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t Italian or even originally Catholic but instead a Sephardic Jew likely from Spain who hid his heritage to avoid persecution, a new genetic study suggests. A decades ...

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 ...

ALBAWABA - A recent study revealed that Italian explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus was allegedly a Sephardic Jew from Spain specifically after Spanish scientists revealed it through DNA ...

Columbus famously sailed for Spain in 1492, but historians have debated whether the original story that he hailed from Genoa, Italy, was actually true. A famous statue of Christopher Columbus ...

The true origin” on Spain’s national broadcaster TVE on Saturday. “We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son,” Lorente ...

Portrait of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images In the same year of 1492 that Columbus landed on Guanahani in the Bahamas ...

A new genetic study by Spanish scientists suggests that Christopher Columbus, the renowned explorer, may have been of Spanish ...

“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient ... offered no data from the analysis whatsoever,” Antonio Alonso, former director of Spain’s National Institute of Toxicology and ...