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New study confirms possible Jewish ancestry of Christopher Columbus through DNA evidence

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A DNA study of Christopher Columbus' remains found in Seville Cathedral suggests that Columbus was of Jewish descent, contradicting the long-held theory that he was an Italian sailor from Genoa. The study involved examining the bones of Columbus and his son Hernando, and the findings imply that Columbus may have hailed from the Jewish community, which was later expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492, the same year Columbus reached the Americas. This claim challenges traditional historical wisdom and raises interesting questions about Columbus' origins and the potential implications of his Jewish ancestry.

  1. ES
    Antonio Alonso
    1. Unfortunately, from a scientific point of view, we can't really evaluate what was in the documentary because they offered no data from the analysis whatsoever.
    2. My conclusion is that the documentary never shows Columbus's DNA and, as scientists, we don't know what analysis was undertaken.
  2. ES
    Rodrigo Barquera
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    1. Normally, you send your article to a scientific journal.
  3. ES
    Francesc Albardaner
    University of Granada
    1. Christopher Columbus had to pretend all his life that he was a Roman Catholic Christian. If he had made one mistake, this man would have ended up on the pyre.
  4. ES
    José Antonio Lorente
    University of Granada
    1. We have DNA from his son Fernando Colón, and in both the Y [male] chromosome and mitochondrial DNA [transmitted by the mother] of Fernando there are traces compatible with a Jewish origin.
    2. If there weren't Jews in Genoa in the 15th century, the likelihood that he was from there is minimal. Neither was there a big Jewish presence in the rest of the Italian peninsula, which makes things very tenuous.
    3. The DNA indicates that Christopher Columbus's origin lay in the western Mediterranean.
    4. Our team and the university have always considered this study into Christopher Columbus and his family as a single, joined-up and inseparable unit, and nothing will be published until the investigation is completed.
    5. Both in the 'Y' chromosome and in the mitochondrial chromosome of Hernando, there are traits compatible with Jewish origins.
    6. We have very partial, but sufficient, DNA from Christopher Columbus.
    7. We're left with the Spanish Mediterranean area, the Balearic islands and Sicily. But Sicily would be strange because then Christopher Columbus would have been written with some trace of Italian or the Sicilian language. That all means that his most likely origin is in the Spanish Mediterranean area or the Balearic islands which belonged to the crown of Aragón at the time.

sources

  1. 1.The Guardian
  2. 2.The Times
  3. 3.BBC
  4. 4.El Pais
  5. 5.Radio y Televisión Española
  6. 6.Times

perspectives

  1. 1.History
  2. 2.Judaism
  3. 3.DNA Testing

countries

  1. 1.BahamasBS
  2. 2.CubaCU
  3. 3.Dominican RepublicDO
  4. 4.SpainES
  5. 5.FranceFR
  6. 6.United KingdomGB
  7. 7.GreeceGR
  8. 8.HaitiHT
  9. 9.HungaryHU
  10. 10.ItalyIT
  11. 11.PolandPL
  12. 12.PortugalPT

organizations

  1. 1.Catholic Church
  2. 2.University of Granada
  3. 3.Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

persons

  1. 1.Christopher Columbus
  2. 2.José Antonio LorenteES
  3. 3.Antonio AlonsoES
  4. 4.Diego Columbus
  5. 5.Ferdinand II
  6. 6.Fernando De Prado
  7. 7.Francesc AlbardanerES
  8. 8.Hernando Colón
  9. 9.Marcial Castro
  10. 10.Rodrigo BarqueraES

technicals

  1. 1.Judaism
  2. 2.Caribbean Sea
  3. 3.Christianity
  4. 4.New World
  5. 5.Balearic Islands
  6. 6.Basque Country
  7. 7.Columbus DNA: His True Origin
  8. 8.Columbus Lighthouse
  9. 9.Hebrew
  10. 10.Islam
  11. 11.Seville Cathedral