A documentary aired on Spain’s national television this month has made headlines around the world for its revolutionary claim that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from the Iberian Peninsula, contrary to the widely accepted theory that he hailed from Genoa in Italy.
A team of forensic experts led by the University of Granada used DNA analysis to investigate the background of the 15th-century explorer in a bid to lay to rest a longstanding debate on the origins of the man whose expeditions opened the way for Europeans to colonise the Americas.
