Early Data Puts Body of Columbus in Spain
Researchers studying DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers said Friday that preliminary data suggests Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than in a tomb in the Dominican Republic.
The team insisted it had reached no firm conclusion and more research was needed. But it said some DNA samples taken from bones that Spain says are the explorer’s matched DNA from a body widely believed to be that of his brother, Diego.
Both bodies were unearthed in Seville over the last two years as part of an experiment to settle a 100-year-old dispute over whether Columbus is buried in Spain or the Dominican Republic.
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