A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a ...

Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish and Jewish, according to a new genetic study conducted by Spanish ...

Scientists have solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding Christopher Columbus' final resting place. The team spent 20 years performing a DNA analysis ... But a study in January found the ...

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained ... "My conclusion is that the documentary never shows Columbus's DNA and, as scientists, we don't know what analysis ...

The centuries-old mystery surrounding Chistopher Columbus ... study by the University of Granada reveals that the navigator and colonizer may be buried in Sevilla, after a DNA analysis confirmed ...

MADRID, Oct 13 (Reuters) - 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 ...

An aeroplane flies past a statue of Christopher Columbus in central Madrid on August ... lead scientist of the DNA study at the University of Granada, told a video news conference.

Forensic scientist José Antonio Lorente, who claimed that the explorer was a Jew from Spain in a documentary, said he would ...

One of the most important and exciting historical research of all time, the study of the DNA of the navigator Christopher Columbus, finally answers two fundamental questions: where do his bones rest?

Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492 ... to escape religious persecution. The study of DNA contradicts the traditional theory, which many historians had questioned, that the ...