MADRID (Reuters) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.Several countries have argued over the origins and the final burial place of the divisive figure who led Spanish-funded expeditions from the 1490s onward, opening the way for the European conquest of the Americas.Many historians have questioned the traditional theory that Columbus came from Genoa, Italy. Other theories range from him being a Spanish Jew or a Greek, to Basque, Portuguese or British.To solve the mystery researchers conducted a 22-year investigation, led by forensic expert Miguel Lorente, by testing tiny samples of remains buried in Seville Cathedral, long marked by authorities there as the last resting place of Columbus, though there had been rival claims.They compared them with those of known relatives and descendants and their findings were announced in a documentary titled “Columbus DNA: The true origin” on Spain’s national broadcaster TVE on Saturday.“And both in the Y chromosome (male) and in the mitochondrial DNA (transmitted by the mother) of Hernando there are traits compatible with Jewish origin.”Around 300,000 Jews lived in Spain before the “Reyes Catolicos,” where Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand ordered Jews and Muslims to convert to the Catholic faith or leave the country. The word Sephardic comes from Sefarad, or Spain in Hebrew.The 1492 Edict of Expulsion in Spain forced Sephardic Jews to convert to Christianity or leave, prompting a dispersion to locations including the Americas and the Middle East. Within Spain and its newfound American colonies, some conversos, or Jewish converts, kept their original faith in secret, under threat of discovery and punishment from the Inquisition.After analyzing 25 possible places, Lorente said it was only possible to say Columbus was born in Western Europe.
>>525818983What was Leif Erickson?
>>525819074also jew
>>525818983maybe post a link next time faggot?
>>525819236The claims are validated by multiple sources. Just google it.
>>525819074>Levi Erikstein
Colombus is honorary white like Jesus then.
>>525818983My ancestor
>>525818983No he wasn't, watch it. They discard all options and finish saying he was jewish because my ass.Then everybody just copied the conclussion without taking a look at the "investigation".
>>525818983He was a Spaniard from Valencia with paternal haplogroup J. The retard that made the study said that because of the J haplogroup he should have been "jewish" which it is retarded since J and E are just neolithic Mediterranean haplogroups.So he was a Spaniard from the Valencia area. In that time people from Valencia were foreigners in Castilla and they were called genovese as "foreigner".
>>525818983>“And both in the Y chromosome (male) and in the mitochondrial DNA (transmitted by the mother) of Hernando there are traits compatible with Jewish origin.”Haplogroups, even though retards on /pol/ like to conflate them with race, are not enough to determine ancestry. If he was a Jew, that's not enough evidence.
>>525818983>Jew >explorer Kek. Nice try Heeb
