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

Christopher Columbus was Jewish, DNA experts concluded in a long-awaited investigation into the true origins of one of ...

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

A 22-year investigation by Spanish forensic researchers concluded that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western ...

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Columbus may have been genetically Jewish, but that doesn't mean he saw himself that way — or that Jews have cause to ...

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 history books ...

Christopher Columbus was likely Jewish, Spanish researchers have announced in a splashy new documentary aired on Spain’s ...

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

Spanish scientists believe he was born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Western Europe and converted to Catholicism.

A Spanish-led genetic study suggests Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish and Jewish, challenging the belief that he was ...