Forensic investigators from the University of Granada (southern Spain), led by Professor of Legal Medicine José Antonio Lorente, confirmed this Thursday that, according to their investigation, the bones of Christopher Columbus buried in the Seville Cathedral (southern Spain) effectively belong to the navigator.
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This was communicated by Lorente during the presentation of the documentary feature film ‘Columbus DNA. Its true origin’, from Story Producciones, which on October 12, the day that commemorates the arrival of Columbus to American lands, will broadcast on RTVE; a kind of historical ‘thriller’, which will resolve some unknowns after more than twenty years of research.
According to Lorente, in the studies of 2003, 2004 and 2005 there was talk of a “possible compatibility” that those bones were from Columbus, although it was a low probability, because there was not enough DNA.
“Today it has been possible to verify with new technologies, so that previous partial theory that the remains of Seville are those of Christopher Columbus is definitively confirmed,” he noted.
At the event held at the Royal National Academy of Medicine, when it was “a historic day” for science for its president, Eduardo Díaz-Rubio, Lorente explained that the data is “exact”, so the reliability from the point of view of the genetic data is “practically absolute” and has been replicated by different 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 that they want to share.
Bones from the Dominican Republic may also be from Columbus
The event was also attended by one of the navigator’s descendants, the Duke of Veragua, the 20th Christopher Columbus, who nevertheless warned that the skeleton in Seville is incomplete, and that they also cling to it in Dominican Republic to say that they also have bones of the discoverer.
“Could it be that part of the bones are in the Dominican Republic and part in Seville?” asked Dr. Lorente, who answered that according to the bones there are, yes, because “they are not all in Seville, nor are they all in Dominican”.
However, he also stressed that the remains in the Caribbean country “have not been the subject of study” because, although when they began the investigation they went there, their authorities told them that there was no doubt that they were from Columbus
Regarding the question of Columbus’s nationality, Lorente did not give an answer. It is expected that the enigma is solved in the documentary that is broadcast on Saturday the 12th, something that will allow “shedding light on history and also rewriting it,” according to the interim president of RTVE, Concepción Cascajosa.
The investigation headed by Lorente tries to shed light on the origin of the navigator, around which Several theories circulate, although the most widespread and internationally accepted is that he was from Genoa (Italy).
This work, as explained at the time by the professor of Forensic Medicine and director of the project, includes DNA analysis of the skeletal remains available from Christopher Columbus, his son Hernando and his brother Diego.
EFE
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