Researchers confirm bones buried in Seville are those of Christopher Columbus, ending a historical controversy

Forensic investigators from the University of Granada (southern Spain), led by Professor of Legal Medicine José Antonio Lorente, Confirmed This Thursday, according to his investigation, The bones of Christopher Columbus buried in the cathedral of Seville (southern Spain) effectively belong to the navigator.

Lorente announced this during the presentation of a documentary that will be broadcast on October 12, a kind of historical thriller that solves some of the unknowns after more than twenty years of investigations.

According to Lorente, in 2003, 2004 and 2005 studies There was talk of a “possible concordance” that the bones came from Columbus because there wasn’t enough DNA.

“Today we have been able to verify that with new technologies The former theory is firmly established “The remains in Seville belong to Christopher Columbus,” he noted.

At an event at the Royal National Academy of Medicine, where its president, Eduardo Díaz-Rubio, said it was a “historic day” for science, Llorente explained that the data were “correct”. Reliability is “practically absolute” in the view of genetic data. and replicated by various laboratories.

In addition, he announced that the research will be published in an international scientific journal, which is what researchers do when they have a result they want to share.

Bones from the Dominican Republic may also be from Columbus

He also attended the event One of the descendants of the navigatorDuke of Veragua, twentieth Christopher Columbus, who however He warned that the skeleton in Seville was incompleteAnd they stick to it In the Dominican Republic Saying they have too Finder’s Bones.

“Could part of the bones be in the Dominican Republic and part in Seville?”Dr. Lorente asked, and he answered yes, because according to the bones “They’re not all in Seville, nor are they all in the Dominican Republic.”.

However, he also emphasized that Remains in Caribbean country “not subject to investigation” for their officers informed them that, though they had gone thither when they began their inquiry, there was no doubt that they were from Columbus.

When asked about Columbus’ nationality, Lorente did not answer. The mystery is expected to be solved in a documentary to be broadcast on Saturday the 12th, which will allow “to shed light on history and rewrite it,” RTVE’s interim president Concepcion Cascajosa said.

The investigation, led by Lorente, attempts to shed light on the origin of the NavigatorMany theories circulate, however the most widely and internationally accepted is that he was from Genoa (Italy).

This work, explained by Professor of Forensic Medicine and Director of the Program, includes DNA analysis of the skeletons of Christopher Columbus, his son Hernando and his brother Diego is available.