DNA confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville
Genetic testing has finally confirmed the official resting place of Christopher Columbus , and scientists who announced the discovery say they also now know his ethnic origin — although they aren’t revealing it yet.
“Today, thanks to new technology, the previous partial theory that the remains in Seville are those of Christopher Columbus has been definitively confirmed,” Lorente said at a press conference. Over the past century, experts have debated whether Columbus’ full remains were taken to Seville for his official final resting place or if some or all of them were still unofficially in the DR.In 1877, an excavation of the Santo Domingo Cathedral in the Dominican Republic had turned up a small lead box of incomplete bone fragments labeled as Columbus’.
Those findings will be shared in a documentary, “Columbus DNA: The True Origin,” which will air on the Spanish national broadcaster TVE on Saturday.“There are some really important results – results that will help us in multiple studies and analyses that should be evaluated by historians,” he said, according
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