A Team of Archeologists May Have Found the Body of Cervantes

Earlier this hebdomad , expert announce that they may have get the remains of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes in crypt in Madrid . The fragment of a coffin with initials “ M.C. ” were found under the chapel service of a cloister convent , and now forensic work will determine if one of the consistence found was really Cervantes ’ .

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Now , a team of forensic anthropologists to determine if one of the ten bodies found belongs to the source . Among the clues they will apply is the years of Cervantes at dying ( 69 ) , portrayal of him , and his own accounts of the state of his body — shortly before dying , he claimed that he only had six teeth .

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Thankfully for the scientist , and less so for Cervantes , he suffer distinctive wounds in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto . Cervantes was slay with three musket shot , two in the chest and one in his hand .

All of these things will help the scientist determine if they really have detect Cervantes , although squad member Francisco Etxeberriwarnedat a printing press conference on Monday :

We ca n’t at all confirm that we have found Cervantes , we ca n’t guarantee this was Cervantes ’ coffin either , but the world is that we have receive a very baste casket which was fall apart , and some naughtily damaged bone in that turning point of the crypt .

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