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May 19, 2021 by archyde
MADRID, Spain | The DNA analysis of the remains of Christopher Columbus will be relaunched by a Spanish university, after years of interruption, in an attempt to unravel the mystery of the explorer’s origins, the expert responsible for the project announced on Wednesday.
Was Columbus Genoese as most historians admit? Catalan, Portuguese, Galician …? There are many hypotheses.
More than 500 years after his death in 1506, these analyzes could put an end to the controversies over the origin of the sailor who discovered America in 1492, thus changing the face of the world.
The results of this “pioneering investigation” are expected in “October”, announced Wednesday the professor of forensic medicine of the University of Granada José Antonio Lorente, during a press conference in this city of Andalusia (South).