• Christopher Columbus - Remains DNA Identified in Seville

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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13951313/christopher-columbus-remains-confirms-dna-analysis.html

    Scientists have solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding
    Christopher Columbus' final resting place.

    The team spent 20 years performing a DNA analysis on human bones
    found buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral, confirming with
    'absolute certainty' they belonged to the explorer who died
    in 1506.

    For the past two decades, they have been comparing DNA taken
    from the samples with that of relatives and descendants.

    The findings come just ahead of the U.S. holiday in his name,
    this Monday, timed to the second Monday in October each year
    to commemorate the Italian voyager's Oct. 12, 1492 discovery
    of the 'New World' for Spain.

    That itself has been a touch-point of controversy over
    his treatment of indigenous peoples.

    Columbus' body had been moved several times following his
    death, with some experts claiming he had been buried in
    the Dominican Republic, sparking a hunt to track down
    the navigator's remains.

    . . .

    It had been highly uncertain where his remains were
    finally interred. As said, they were apparently
    MOVE a couple of times, which complicated things.
    Estimates ranged from Haiti to the DR to even
    Italy - but most bets were on Spain, but WHERE ?

    Columbus actually didn't encounter many American
    natives - he never got past the Carib islands.
    However those he did meet were treated as heathen
    primitives to be enslaved and/or killed as a
    demonstration of power. This was the norm back
    then, The Way It Was Done. Spain, France, England
    and beyond - NOT native-friendly in the least.

    Conquest/power/wealth was all that counted. Euros
    treated each other that way too, as did the Islamics
    and Chinese and beyond. "Might=Right"/"Right-of-Conquest"
    have been a world standard for as far back as written
    history goes - kinda the Human Default Mode.

    In the Sumerian epic "Gilgamesh", about 6000 years old,
    our 'hero' decides he wants to get rich by going to
    Lebanon and taking a huge raft of the precious cedar
    trees. So, he goes there and slaughters mass quantities
    of the locals and then takes the trees away. The story
    offered no 'moral' judgements since Might=Right applied.
    Clearly The Gods watched each such conquest and the
    winner was god-approved. No moral/ethical issues.

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