A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a ...

Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus continues to stir fascination and fierce debate. His historic Atlantic ...

One of the most important and exciting historical research of all time, the study of the DNA of the navigator Christopher Columbus, finally answers two fundamental questions: where do his bones rest?

For centuries, Christopher Columbus has been celebrated as the brave ... has been left out of the history books. Now a new DNA analysis might help researchers understand the origins and the ...

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 ...

“This shows a creative approach to finding similar sets of genes in people around the world,” Christopher Mason, a physiologist and biophysicist at Weill Cornell Medicine who was not involved in the ...

Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus continues to ... finally cracked both mysteries using decades of careful DNA study. Columbus is widely credited with opening the door to European ...

One of the most famous explorers was Christopher Columbus. He lived over 500 years ago. Columbus wanted to travel to China and India, countries known as ‘The Indies’ which were full of wealth.