On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate ... the document to be a cut-and-dried record of the famed explorer's birthplace, some have ...

have been definitively identified as those of Christopher Columbus after more than 20 years of DNA analysis by forensic scientists. The team also investigated Columbus' birthplace. While it has ...

Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus continues to stir fascination ... yet much of his biography is murky. Though tradition claims he hailed from Genoa, some experts have suggested ...

Now, after more than two decades of research, scientists say they have enough evidence to solve the argument over the birthplace ... Seville are those of Christopher Columbus”.

Christopher Columbus was Jewish ... award presentation honouring the explorer in the port city considered his birthplace, roundly criticised the research. “The state archive of Genoa has ...

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.

“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial ... There have been an estimated 25 conflicting theories of his birthplace, including Poland, Greece, Portugal, France and Hungary.

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But Columbus’s birthplace is the biggest enigma ... confirmed that the bones buried in Seville's cathedral belong to Christopher Columbus The widely accepted theory is that he was born in ...