History is written by the winners - this is a well known principle. For example, October 11 was Columbus Day. Ever since the 18th century, Columbus' arrival on American soil in 1492 is being celebrated in the United States, all throughout Central America, the Caribbean, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay etc. But what is actually being celebrated? And if
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I could take some bones from the cemetery and put them in a box and write an inscription that "here lay Hristo Botev, fighter for national freedom of Bulgaria". Are the bones 150 years old? Yes. Does the script say it's Botev? Yes. Is it Botev? Well, not really. But people would believe it is.
Curiously, when called out on the obvious fact that the St. John discovery in Sozopol came very timely when our tourism industry needed an urgent boost, our Minister of Culture yelled back at the journalists, "Why do you hate your country? Don't you want our tourism industry to prosper?" End of story.
It's never been about the veracity of the discovery. It's always been about economic benefit and/or political/social influence (and hence, again economic benefit).
/cool story bro, and all that
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http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/20/world/fg-columbus20
A forensic team led by Spanish geneticist Jose Antonio Lorente compared DNA from bones buried in a cathedral in Seville with that from remains known to be from Columbus' brother Diego, who also is buried in the southern Spanish city.
"There is absolute matchup between the mitochondrial DNA we have studied from Columbus' brother and Christopher Columbus," Castro said in a telephone interview.
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