Confirmation of the location where Christopher Columbus's remains are kept.

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) died in the Spanish city of Valladolid but had previously wished to be buried on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to The Guardian . His remains were taken there in 1542 and then to Cuba in 1795, before returning to Seville in 1898 when Spain lost control of Cuba after the war with the United States.

Tourists visit the tomb of Christopher Columbus at Seville Cathedral on October 11.

On October 10th, after two decades of DNA testing and research, forensic expert Jose Antonio Lorente announced that the incomplete remains found in the tomb at Seville Cathedral belonged to Christopher Columbus, according to The Guardian .

"Today, thanks to new technology, the previously imperfect hypothesis that the remains in Seville belonged to Christopher Columbus has been definitively confirmed," the expert asserted. Lorente led the research team at the University of Granada (Spain). His team compared DNA samples from the tomb with the DNA of Columbus's brother Diego and son Fernando.

On October 12th, to mark Spain's national holiday commemorating Columbus's discovery of the New World (America), a special television program will be broadcast in which scientists will answer the question of whether Christopher Columbus was truly Italian (from Genoa) as has long been claimed, or whether he was Swedish, Portuguese, French, Greek, Scottish, or from various other regions of Spain.

Lorente described the investigation as very complex but with some truly important results that will assist scientists in many studies and analyses and will be appreciated by historians.

On the other hand, Lorente says that part of Columbus's remains may still be in the Caribbean. In 1877, excavators found a small lead box containing bone fragments at the Santo Domingo Cathedral in the Dominican Republic with the inscription: "The great and distinguished man, Christopher Columbus." Those bones were later buried at the Faro a Colon memorial in the municipality of Santo Domingo Este. Lorente says that those bones are incomplete and may belong to the navigator Christopher Columbus.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/xac-nhan-noi-luu-giu-thi-hai-christopher-columbus-185241012074853858.htm