Like the fact that Columbus came from Genoa, in Italy. That he persuaded Spain’s Catholic monarchs to sponsor an impossible voyage to the Indies traveling west instead of east from Spain.

[But] the pope expedited these documents, these donations of the Indians to the Catholic monarchs. What year are we talking about? Columbus was returning to the New World in 1493, and he stayed ...

After all, he’d been giving his pitch to various crowned heads before he tried the Catholic monarchs. The emir might have listened with equal parts fascination and skepticism to Columbus’s ...

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the ... of the “Reyes Catolicos”, during ...

Spanish scientists announced in a new documentary that first aired on Saturday that DNA analysis shows the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe.

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from ... lived in Spain before the “Reyes Catolicos,” Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand, ordered Jews and Muslims ...