They believe they have found the bones of Cervantes, his wife and
others recorded as buried with him in Madrid's Convent of the Barefoot
Trinitarians.
Separating and identifying his badly damaged bones from the other fragments will be difficult, researchers say.
The Don Quixote author was buried in 1616 but his coffin was later lost.
When the convent was rebuilt late in the 17th Century, his
remains were moved into the new building and it has taken centuries to
rediscover the tomb of the man known as Spain's "Prince of Letters".
"His end was that of a poor man. A war veteran with his
battle wounds," said Pedro Corral, head of art, sport and tourism at
Madrid city council.
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