Genetic testing has finally confirmed the official resting place of Christopher Columbus ... the remains using samples taken from Columbus’s son, Fernando, and one of his brothers.

As for Columbus's ethnicity, "We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son," explained Lorente in the program. "And both in the Y ...

To discover that Christopher Columbus ... after a 22-year investigation into Columbus and his son’s remains, researchers found “traits compatible with Jewish origin,” made international ...

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.

A Christopher Columbus statue removed in 2020 amid a climate of racial reckoning after the police killing of George Floyd has finally found a home ...

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 ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t Italian or even originally ... “We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son. And both in the Y [male] chromosome and in the mitochondrial DNA [from the mother ...

“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son,” the lead researcher, José Antonio Lorente at the University of ...