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 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 ...

The 500 year old mystery surrounding the final resting place of Christopher Columbus has been solved by scientists using DNA analysis. After two decades of DNA testing, the team was able to ...

But some states and cities have celebrated the date as Indigenous Peoples Day, or celebrate both, amid concerns that honoring Italian explorer Christopher Columbus glorifies the exploitation and ...

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.

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"Today it has been possible to verify it with new technologies, so that the previous partial theory that the remains of Seville belong to Christopher Columbus has been definitively confirmed ...

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 ...