This weekend, take a tour of two replicas of Columbus' ships, celebrate the 25th anniversary of Coolidge Park and/or watch a sculpture burn at Fire Up the Fields, among other activities.

Columbus set sail on August 3, 1492, from the Spanish port of Palos with hopes of finding a route to the fabled riches of Asia. Along with three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria ...

"Columbus was built as an exemplary mid-century design city, with its most fervent period from 1954-1974," Shaw told Dezeen. "The city is a living monument to design excellence as a tool to make a ...

Spanish scientists announced in a new documentary that first aired on Saturday that DNA analysis shows the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe.

(RNS) — Just in time for Columbus Day, reports emerged on Monday (Oct. 14) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish w ...

Researchers have analyzed tiny samples of the remains from Seville A centuries-old mystery surrounding the origins of Christopher Columbus may soon be solved. Spanish scientists have confirmed ...

The second Monday of October marks Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day in the United States. In 2022, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Indigenous Peoples Day, but Columbus Day is ...

Columbus State Community College also took down its statue of the explorer in 2020, The Dispatch previously reported. The city used to display a replica of one of the three ships Columbus sailed ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t Italian or even originally Catholic but instead a Sephardic Jew likely from Spain who hid his heritage to avoid persecution, a new genetic study suggests. A decades ...

The research aims to resolve long-standing uncertainty surrounding Columbus' background. Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as traditionally believed, but possibly a Sephardic ...