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

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, ...

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 ...

Columbus famously sailed for Spain in 1492, but historians have debated whether the original story that he hailed from Genoa, Italy, was actually true. A famous statue of Christopher Columbus ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

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

Christopher Columbus was likely Jewish, Spanish researchers have announced in a splashy new documentary aired on Spain’s national broadcaster on Saturday. According to the documentary ...