Genetic material has uncovered the sex and relationships of some of the most iconic victims of the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD ...

Considering to leave the U.S and move to Europe? The European Best Destinations organization has revealed its new ranking of ...

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher ... Over the years, historians have suggested that the explorer could have been Greek, Basque, Portuguese, or British.

Basque, Portuguese, or British. While researchers were unable to pinpoint Columbus’s place of birth, they acknowledged after analysing 25 possible locations that he was likely to have come from the ...

DNA. (credit: PIXABAY ... with some asserting he may even have been Greek or Basque. But the proof we now have, straight from the Petri dish, that Columbus was Jewish serves as posthumous ...

No human, even in the Basque Country, is likely to get too excited ... Scientists say they were able to recover long sequences of DNA from the skull, and even significant amounts of RNA, which ...

Other theories range from him being a Spanish Jew or a Greek, to Basque, Portuguese or British ... and their findings were announced in a documentary titled "Columbus DNA: The true origin" on Spain's ...

A collaborative team of researchers from institutions like the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), University of the Basque ...

Geneticist Iñigo Olalde, a collaborator of David Reich and an expert in ancient DNA at the University of the Basque Country, also points out the frailty of the evidence, despite Lorente’s 20-year ...