For many years, guides leading visitors on tours of Jewish history in Spain have shared rumors that Christopher Columbus was ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.