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

Columbus led the Spain Empire's exploration of the Americas ... and with traces of DNA consistent with a Jewish origin. "We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient.

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 ...

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 research aims to resolve long-standing uncertainty surrounding Columbus' background. Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as traditionally believed, but possibly a Sephardic ...

The true origin” on Spain’s national broadcaster TVE on Saturday. “We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son,” Lorente ...

ALBAWABA - A recent study revealed that Italian explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus was allegedly a Sephardic Jew from Spain specifically after Spanish scientists revealed it through DNA ...

"We have DNA from Christopher Columbus ... The word Sephardic is derived from Sepharad, or Spain in Hebrew. Columbus was traditionally believed to have come from Genoa, Italy, though historians ...

Portrait of Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images In the same year of 1492 that Columbus landed on Guanahani in the Bahamas ...

A new genetic study by Spanish scientists suggests that Christopher Columbus, the renowned explorer, may have been of Spanish ...

“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient ... An estimated 300,000 Jews were living in Spain before the era of the “Reyes Catolicos”, during which Catholic monarchs King ...