Believe they have found skeletal remains of Miguel de Cervantes and his … – ElTiempo.com

The remains, disintegrated and “in bad shape” of Cervantes and his wife, Catalina de Salazar, met with several bone material more adults in one of the niches of the other crypt to containing the table with the initials MC, and analyzes of external laboratory suggest that they are the father of Don Quixote and his wife.

According to some sources, this is not the point burial where the writer was buried in 1616 but the site to which their bones were moved after 1673, when work began remodeling the church, now listed as cultural interest (BIC) and located in the central district of letters.

Were the tests with a mass spectrometer which allowed the forensic team led by Francisco Etxeberria analyze bone composition and dating the remains coincide with those of Miguel de Cervantes, his wife, and others who were buried at the same time, in locations also proven in research.

However, the complete skeleton of Cervantes but bones are not found in disrepair, a hypothesis that comes to endorse the starting point for researchers. “We will not find Cervantes with your name put in a coffin,” he quipped project director, Francisco Etxeberria, when in June last year points burial church detected with GPR were presented.

Professor Etxeberria, who participated in the study of the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War or in the analysis of the remains of Salvador Allende, among others, addressed this second phase of the project focused on recovery and analysis of the material to collate after possible correspondence with the writer.

The details of the discovery will be showcased at a press conference in the city of Madrid, an institution that financed and promoted the search Cervantes almost 400 years after his death in the church where he was buried at the express wish of the writer, a great devotee of the Trinitarian order, which rescued him five years of captivity in Algiers.

The annexed to the church of the Trinity convent still reside religious thirteen were in principle reluctant to seek, but eventually gave its approval to an intervention at this late stage followed closely.

Work began in late April last year, when the team georradaristas led by project co-director Luis Avial was located four graves in the church and crypt with niches where the remains were found.

After months of efforts to obtain regulatory approval last January 22 began the anthropological phase and thirty researchers agreed to the Crypt, about seventy square meters and located five meters under the ground level, for the recovery of the remains.

There over 200 burials were found, mostly children, that expand the knowledge of how was the Madrid the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, since at this time they appeared mummies, garments and details that shed light on the lifestyles of the time.

The finding coincides with the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the second part of ‘The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha’, which precedes the celebration in 2016 of the Fourth Centenary of the death of the most universal Spanish writer, corresponding, incidentally, in tribute England William Shakespeare, whose tomb can be visited in the church of his hometown.

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