Tracing the DNA of Christopher Columbus: two exhumations in Spain aim to determine the explorer’s lineage once and for all
When Christopher Columbus died on May 20, 1506 in Valladolid, Spain, he left a historical legacy and a mystery about his true origins. Conflicting myths have emerged about the legacy of Christopher Columbus. Official theory has long held that the navigator who reached America was Genoese. In 1898, another hypothesis postulated that the explorer was …