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

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

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

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

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

Researchers who study Columbus say the purported findings are of only limited significance, even if true: DNA evidence would ...

Persistent questions surrounding the identity of Christopher Columbus may finally have been solved, and let’s just say that ...

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

A new documentary explores 20 years of research into the navigator’s roots, suggesting his birthplace is in the ‘western ...

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