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 ...

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 ...

"We have DNA from Christopher Columbus ... The word Sephardic is derived from Sepharad, or Spain in Hebrew. Columbus was traditionally believed to have come from Genoa, Italy, though historians ...

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 ...

“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient ... An estimated 300,000 Jews were living in Spain before the era of the “Reyes Catolicos”, during which Catholic monarchs King ...

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 ...