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At a press conference held for the documentary “Col&&o&&n ADN. Su verdadero origen” (Columbus DNA. His true origin), which is scheduled to premiere this Saturday on Spanish state television, scientists from the University of Granada announced the conclusions of an investigation that took more than 20 years and that seeks to put an end to speculation about the fate of the remains of the navigator.

The leader of the researchers, Jos&&e&& Antonio Lorente, explained that since 2003 there has been talk of a possible compatibility of the remains in the cathedral of Seville, but that the DNA technology available at that time had not allowed them to reach a solid conclusion.

Someone might say: ‘that has already been said’ and indeed, at the beginning of the studies that we did in 2003, 2004 and 2005, there was already an advance of the results that there were and it was possible that the bones that were in Seville were those of Christopher Columbus. What is happening? That the probability, and here we would speak of statistical probability, was low because we did not have enough DNA. Today, it has been possible to confirm this with new technologies, which is why this theory is definitely confirmed,” said Lorente.

The investigation was based on the DNA analysis of the remains of Columbus that have already been identified, as well as those of his son Hernando.

One of the navigator's descendants, Crist&&o&&bal Col&&o&&n de Carvajal y Goros&&a&&bel, also attended the event, and referred to the remains in the Dominican Republic that are also attributed to Columbus.

“Dominicans are clinging to another possibility because the skeleton in the cathedral of Seville is an incomplete skeleton,” he said.

Lorente added that it is possible that there are also remains of Columbus in the Dominican Republic, since the bones “are not all in Seville, nor are they all in the Dominican Republic.”

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