SCIENTISTS have finally solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding Christopher ... reliable". Columbus was an Italian explorer who set out to find a direct ocean route from Europe to Asia.

Just in time for the long weekend. Genetic testing has finally confirmed the official resting place of Christopher Columbus, and scientists who announced the discovery say they also now know his ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Christopher ... in Hebrew. Columbus’ fame stems from his four expeditions to the Americas, trips that were backed by Spanish monarchs looking for a new route to Asia. But he slammed into the ...

Christopher Columbus ... explorer was an Italian from Genoa. Columbus led an expedition backed by Spain's Catholic Monarchs seeking to establish a new route to Asia - but instead he reached ...

Spanish scientists announced in a new documentary that first aired on Saturday that DNA analysis shows the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe.

In 1999 the Boston Globe printed a guest editorial from a leader of the Massachusetts Historical Society, essentially saying that Boston had no connection to Christopher Columbus, and the statue ...

A new poll has found that most Americans are skeptical of what they were taught in schools about Christopher Columbus. The survey, conducted by YouGov and released on October 12, two days before ...

The resultant book was “Christopher ... that Columbus had significant connections with Jews or recent forced converts from Judaism (conversos), who had supplied him with maps, astronomical ...

Protests of Pueblo's Christopher Columbus monument ... in celebration of the Genoan explorer. "Columbus was driven by the ambition to find a new trade route to Asia, but what he discovered instead ...

About half of Americans, 52%, have a favorable view of Christopher Columbus, while 32% view him unfavorably, according to a new poll. Photo from Kevin Olson, UnSplash Americans are largely divided ...