The researchers looking for the remains of Miguel de Cervantes in the Church of the Trinity in Madrid , where he was buried, believe they have found the bones that could correspond to the writer and his wife, Catalina de Salazar , told Efe sources close to the project.
The remains, disintegrated and “in bad shape”, met with materials Bone several more adults in one of the niches of the other crypt containing the table with initial MC and external laboratory analyzes suggest which are the father of Don Quixote and his wife.
According to some sources, there is the point of burial where the writer was buried in 1616 but the site that his bones were moved after 1673, when they began the refurbishment of the church, now listed as cultural interest (BIC) and located in the central district of the letters.
Were the tests with a mass spectrometer which allowed the team led by forensic Francisco Etxeberria analyze bone composition and date the remains in line with those of Miguel de Cervantes , his wife, and others who were buried at the same time, in locations also proven in research.
However, no the complete skeleton of bones was found Cervantes but shabby , a hypothesis that comes to endorse the starting point for researchers.
“We will not find Cervantes with your name put on a coffin, “he quipped project director, Francisco Etxeberria, told Efe, when in June last year points burial church detected with GPR were presented.
Professor Etxeberría, which 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 the recovery and analysis of the material to collate after possible correspondence with the
writer. The d Find ata will be showcased at a press conference in the city of Madrid , an institution that financed and promoted the search for 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.
convent attached to the church Trinitarian still reside religious thirteen were in principle reluctant to seek, but eventually gave its approval to an intervention at this late stage followed closely.
Los Work began in late April last year, when the team led by georradaristas project co-director Luis Avial 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 below ground level , for the recovery of the remains.
There were noted more 200 burials, mostly children, that expand the knowledge of how was the Madrid of 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 the most universal Spanish writer, corresponding, incidentally, with the tribute from England to William Shakespeare , whose tomb can be visited in the church in his hometown.
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