As for Columbus’ genetic background, the scientist played coy when pressed about what the DNA tests revealed. Columbus famously sailed for Spain in 1492, but historians have debated whether the ...

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

Spanish scientists announced in a new documentary that first aired on Saturday that DNA analysis shows the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe. The ...

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 centuries-old mystery.

The researchers have been comparing the DNA samples with those of relatives and descendants for the past 20 years. A search ...

Studies of Columbus’s DNA started in 2003, the year his remains were exhumed from the catacombs of Seville’s Cathedral by Granada University forensic medicine professor, José Antonio Lorente ...

To discover that Christopher Columbus, long whispered to have Jewish heritage, had markers of Sephardic DNA is to me about as monumental as learning the Earth is round circa 1492.

Christopher Columbus was Jewish, DNA experts concluded in a long-awaited investigation into the true origins of one of history’s most famous explorers.

In Columbus’ DNA, his true origin, Lorente uses DNA from Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, and distant cousin Diego Colón to verify that the few bones that were housed at the ...

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe.. Spanish researchers announced their ...