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Christopher Columbus has revealed how the 'Home Alone' McCallister family afforded their huge Chicago mansion.

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

A Spanish documentary has made history-changing claims, but the science behind its conclusions remains unclear.

In connection to Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, media from the BBC and Fox to Reuters and Haaretz reported on new DNA evidence about the holiday’s original namesake. According to research revealed in a recent Spanish documentary, Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as widely assumed, but Sephardic: of Spanish…

The Vikings landed in what is now Newfoundland, Canada around the year A.D. 1000. So why didn't they colonize the region like other Europeans did centuries later?

St John’s joins Manhattan University, Seton Hall University, and Niagra University in the move to eliminate Columbus Day from the official school calendar

The recent documentary by RTVE exposes findings that contradict long-held beliefs about Christopher Columbus. The documentary was released on Spain's National Day.

To solve the mystery researchers conducted a 22-year investigation

It’s a bank holiday, but you should be in decent shape for other errands.

The 15th-century explorer was a Sephardic Jew from western Europe, Spanish DNA experts reveal

Claim raises idea explorer was from community expelled by his Spanish patrons, but experts view it with caution