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America’s discoverer died over five centuries, but their origin and identity remain unknown.
Christopher Columbus died in 1506, but their origin and identity remain unknown. According to an investigation from the University of Granada, Colombo was not Genoese, but a Sephardic Jew of Valencia.
To reach this conclusion, an expert from the Spanish institution investigated the DNA of the discoverer of America, as well as the bones of some of his closest relatives: his son and brother.
In Israel, the results did not provoke great surprise in university media.
“Being Jewish is not a matter of blood”
The browser reached the American continent in 1492, the year of the expulsion of the Jews of Spain. Colombo wrote travel diaries, letters, and a treaty named “Book of Prophecy,” which contains many biblical messages, and in 1940 a Colombo biographer found elements of Jewish tradition in his texts.
About 500 years later, Israeli investigators say that being Jewish is not a matter of blood and remember that in Spain there are those who criticize the absence of sufficient scientific evidence, to determine the origins of the Admiral.
