Just in time for the long weekend. Genetic testing has finally confirmed the official resting place of Christopher Columbus, and scientists who announced the discovery say they also now know his ...

Scientists Solve the 500-Year-Old Mystery Around Remains of ‘Discoverer of America’ Christopher Columbus Spanish researchers ...

SCIENTISTS have finally solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding Christopher Columbus' final resting place. Years have been spent performing DNA analysis on human bones found in Spain's Seville ...

A Spanish documentary has made history-changing claims, but the science behind its conclusions remains unclear.

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. In other words ...

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.

(WHTM) — The short answer? A lot of people. To say that Christopher Columbus is somewhat controversial is kind of like saying the planet Jupiter is somewhat large. To some, he is the “Admiral ...

Scientists have solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding Christopher Columbus' final resting place. The team spent 20 years performing a DNA analysis on human bones found buried in Spain's ...

(JTA) — Christopher Columbus was likely Jewish, Spanish researchers have announced in a splashy new documentary aired on Spain’s national broadcaster on Saturday. According to the documentary ...

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 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. Several ...

We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son,' Lorente said in the programme. 'And both in the Y chromosome (male) and in the ...