Skip to playerSkip to main contentSkip to footer
Veuer
  • 10/14/2024
A new documentary on Spanish television claims that Christopher Columbus was actually Jewish. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.

Category

🗞
News
Transcript
00:00A new documentary on Spanish television claims that Christopher Columbus was actually Jewish.
00:05The claim is based on DNA analysis of Columbus' remains.
00:08Here we see a box containing those remains in Seville, Spain in 2003.
00:13According to Newsweek, forensic expert Jose Antonio Laurenti began the analysis then,
00:17but the scientific techniques available at that time were not sufficiently advanced.
00:22CNN reports that Laurenti now says that DNA from both Columbus and his son Hernando Colon
00:27have, quote, traits compatible with Jewish origin.
00:30In America, Columbus has long been associated with Italy, as he claimed Genoa as his birthplace,
00:35although the modern Italian nation-state was not unified until 1861.
00:39Some have called these new findings into question.
00:42Science Alert relayed a skeptical quote given by Antonio Alonso,
00:45former director of Spain's National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences,
00:50to the Spanish news service El País.
00:52Alonso said,
00:53Unfortunately, from a scientific point of view, we can't really evaluate what was in
00:57the documentary because they offered no data from the analysis whatsoever.
01:01So for now, the idea of a Jewish Columbus is intriguing, but may need further confirmation.

Recommended

1:20
Up next
8 interesting facts about Christopher Columbus
Videoo.tv (English)
1/11/2021
5:24
Christopher Columbus
CartoonAdventure
10/19/2015
1:12
Vivek Oberoi Causes TROUBLE In Aishwarya- Abhishek Marriage
Bollywood Buzz
9/16/2019
1:21
Priyanka Chopra CRIES Uncontrollably On Sets Of The Sky Is Pink
Bollywood Buzz
9/16/2019
1:24
Jahnvi Kapoor Has Finalised Her Wedding Venue And Bridal Dress
Bollywood Buzz
9/13/2019
0:51
Former Aide Claims She Was Asked to Make a ‘Hit List’ For Trump
Veuer
9/27/2023
1:08
Musk’s X Is ‘the Platform With the Largest Ratio of Misinformation or Disinformation’ Amongst All Social Media Platforms
Veuer
9/27/2023
4:50
59 companies that are changing the world: From Tesla to Chobani
Fortune
9/27/2023
0:35
8 Things to Do in the Morning to Improve Productivity
Martha Stewart Living
9/22/2023
2:11
Why You Should Remember Aretha Franklin
Goalcast
9/23/2023
1:18
USC vs. Colorado: Can Caleb Williams Earn a New Heisman Moment?
SportsGrid
9/26/2023
1:04
Vic Mensa Reveals Celebrity Crush, Biggest Dating Pet Peeve & More on Speed Dating | Billboard News
Billboard
9/25/2023
1:09
Hollywood Writers Reach ‘Tentative Agreement’ With Studios After 146 Day Strike
Veuer
9/25/2023
1:26
Love is Blind stars admit they're burnt out from social media
Fortune
9/25/2023
2:01
NHA Customers in Limbo as Company Faces Potential Merger
SportsGrid
9/25/2023
2:55
Vanilla Ice Explains How the 90’s Shaped America
FACTZ
9/24/2023
1:26
Hot 100 Chart Reveal: Sept. 30, 2023 | Billboard News
Billboard
9/25/2023
0:36
Amazon’ Prime Video Will Show Commercials Starting Next Year
Veuer
9/25/2023
1:10
Angelica Ross Spills Details on Call with Emma Roberts About Transphobic Remarks
What's Trending
9/23/2023
11:13
Pokimane Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions
WIRED
9/21/2023
4:16
BREAKING NEWS: Matt Gaetz Tells House Committee: 'I'm Not Going To Vote For A Continuing Resolution'
Forbes Breaking News
9/22/2023
1:00
What's Popular on Uber Eats?
Stringr
9/22/2023
2:50
Måneskin Performs "HONEY" at MSG
Rolling Stone
9/22/2023
12:13
Matt Rife Hilariously Roasts Your Dating Profiles | Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan USA
9/19/2023
7:01
Kelly Clarkson Fights Back Against Brandon Blackstock In Devastating Divorce Battle
Life Stories By Goalcast
8/24/2023