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Two exhumations in Spain seek to determine Columbus’s lineage once and for all

When Christopher Columbus died on May 20, 1506, he left behind him a historical legacy and
a mystery about his true origins. The official theory has long defended that the navigator who
reached America was from Genoa. In 1898, another hypothesis postulated that the explorer had
been born in Pontevedra. Portugal, Croatia and Poland have also been mentioned as Columbus’s
possible origins.
Now, a project led by José Antonio Lorente, a professor of Forensic Medicine at the University
of Granada, is examining Columbus’s DNA. Historians are impatiently awaiting the results of the
scientific study, which could change the last 500 years of history. After exhuming Columbus’s
tomb in the Cathedral of Seville in 2003 and extracting remains of his bones, Lorente began the
analysis for their genetic identification.
Tracing Columbus’s lineage took Lorente’s team to the province of Pontevedra. Near the
medieval San Xoán de Poio monastery, team members, with the help of two historians at the
University of Santiago and two cultural heritage experts, recovered possible vestiges of
Columbus related to a clan of sailors in the 15th century.
The researchers also opened a stone sarcophagus located in a church in the village of
Vilaxoán. Historians believe that the sarcophagus contained the mummy of an influential
clergyman who might have been Columbus’s cousin. To the team’s surprise, the remains were in
apparently good condition after having being buried for five centuries. If the genetic tests match,
Christopher Columbus could in fact be Pedro de Soutomaior, according to one hypothesis. The
investigation’s final result will be the basis of a documentary film and a miniseries.