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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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