MADRID, (REUTERS) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery ...

Spanish scientists using partial but sufficient DNA fragments have, after many years of research, recently concluded that Columbus was, in all likelihood, a Sephardic Jew.

According to research revealed in a recent Spanish documentary, Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as widely assumed, but Sephardic: of Spanish Jewish lineage.

A documentary aired on Spain’s national television this month has made headlines around the world for its revolutionary claim that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from the Iberian ...

SEVILLE, Spain — Conventional history states Christopher Columbus was from Genoa, Italy, but he may have been, in fact, a Sephardic Jew from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, according to a new ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Headlines in New York Post (“Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, study finds”), BBC (“Columbus probably Spanish and Jewish, study says”) and Fox News (“Columbus ...