After centuries of speculation, scientists have confirmed the official resting place of Christopher Columbus. A team of forensics experts from University of Grenada, led by José Antonio Lorente, announced Thursday that DNA testing of bones interred at Spain’s Seville Cathedral has definitively identified them as belonging to the explorer who died in 1506.
The location of Columbus’ remains has long been a mystery, as his body was moved several times. Some experts believed he was buried in the Dominican Republic, while others thought he’d been laid to rest inside a tomb in Seville Cathedral. That tomb was opened in 2003, when the bones were found, but at the time, DNA technology couldn’t accurately read such small amounts of genetic material.
Researchers compared the DNA to remains of the explorer’s son and brother, who are also buried in Seville Cathedral, and who had bigger DNA samples to draw from.
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