Bones found in hunt for Don Quixote author
By Park Sae-jin
Posted : February 10, 2015, 16:04
Updated : February 10, 2015, 16:04
For nearly four years, archaeologists have been trying to locate the grave of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes in time for the 400th anniversary of his death next year.
This weekend, they found some bones in a wooden casket in a crypt beneath the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in Madrid.
The archaeologists believe the remains could be those of the writer who died in the city in 1616.
A plank of wood forming part of the coffin was found to bear the initials "M.C." in metal tacks and a team of some 30 archaeologists, forensic technicians and historians will now analyse the bones.
By Ruchi Singh