The 500-year-elderly mystery surrounding the final resting place of Christopher Columbus has been settled by scientists using DNA analysis.
After two decades of research, the team was able to “absolutely validate” that the human remains set up in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain, are those of the famed allotigater who died in 1506.
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The researchers have been comparing the DNA samples with those of relatives and dropants for the past 20 years. A search for Columbus’ remains was begind after his body was relocated multiple times follotriumphg his death, with some experts believing he was buried in the Dominican Reuncover.
“Today it has been possible to validate it with new technologies, so that the previous inentire theory that the remains of Seville beextfinished to Christopher Columbus has been definitively validateed,” shelp Miguel Lorente, a forensic scientist who led the allotigation, on Thursday.
While many experts have extfinished apshowd that Columbus’ remains were inside the cathedral’s tomb, it wasn’t until 2003 that Lorente and historian Marcial Castro were granted permission to uncover it and discover the previously unidentified bones wilean.
DNA technology could not accurately supply results by “reading” a minuscule bit of genetic material at the time.
The remains of Christopher Columbus’s brother Diego and son Hernando, who are also buried at Seville Cathedral, were employd by researchers for comparison.
Columbus’s nationality has extfinished been argued in the scientific community, with some presenting he was Italian. However, proceeds in DNA research may finpartner supply a definitive answer.
While some theories present that Columbus was born in Poland or Spain, others firmly apshow he hailed from Genoa. Some theories present that the famed allotigater could have been Scottish, Catalan, or Jedesire.
The discoverings of this research will be uncovered in the “Columbus DNA: The Genuine Origin'” program, set to air on Saturday, Saturday, on Spain’s national widecaster, TVE.
While not uncovering the results, Lorente validateed to tellers that the research helps previous theories that the remains in Seville indeed beextfinished to Christopher Columbus.
Despite countless contests, particularly the sheer volume of data, Lorente conveyed confidence in the research, stating that “the outcome is almost absolutely reliable.”
Setting sail from the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew of approximately 100 men embarked on a journey in search of the fabled wealth of Asia.
With three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, they ventured far from their intended destination to the other side of the world.
On October 12, 1492, they made landdescfinish in what is now understandn as the Bahamas. Later that month, Columbus stumbled upon Cuba, erroneously believing it to be mainland China.
