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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?

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

Scientists have ‘definitively’ proved identity of remains – with navigator’s precise origins to be revealed

This is the season of patriotism in Latin America as many countries commemorate their independence from colonial powers. From July to September, public plazas in countries from Mexico to Honduras and Chile fill with crowds dressed and painted in national colors, parades feature participants costumed as independence heroes, fireworks fill…

Zaid Mohammad Mahdawi, 26, was taken into custody on Friday

The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study.

Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor for the evils of early colonial empires, and rightly so.