THE bones of a 15th century cleric from Galicia have been exhumed in a bid to prove that Christopher Columbus was not Italian but in fact Spanish. It is
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Spanish DNA study set to finally solve mystery of true origins of explorer Christopher Columbus
The 500-year old mystery of the adventurer’s true identity could about to be solved, thanks to modern science.
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Spanish researchers have announced a bid to settle the dispute over which country could claim Christopher Columbus as their own.
It was widely believed that he was the son of a weaver born in the Italian port of Genoa in 1451, but over the centuries he has been claimed as a native son of Greece, Catalonia, Portugal, Corsica, France, Scotland and even Poland.
The origin of legendary seafarer Christopher Columbus, who discovered America for Europe, still puzzles historians. While it is widely renown that he was born in.
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The first samples were collected in 2004-2005 and the DNA analysis will now resume after a 16-year hiatus due to technology challenges, which meant too much of the precious sample material would be wasted in exchange for too little data.
“Our team agreed on an ethical approach … wait for a technological development that has now happened,” said Lorente.
Columbus died in Valladolid in Spain in 1506, but wished to be buried on the island of Hispaniola that is today shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti. His remains were taken there in 1542, then moved to Cuba in 1795 and then to Seville in 1898. (Reporting by Michael Susin, Elena Rodriguez, editing by Andrei Khalip, John Stonestreet and Lisa Shumaker)
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