MADRID – Scientists revealed on Monday that they had discovered a coffin with the initials MC on it[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″] which has been in the search for the remains of Spain’s leading writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616).
Sources from the scientific team said the remains of the wooden coffin were found among other pieces of wood from several other coffins on a burial shelf under a convent in the capital Madrid.
The experts believed the pieces of bone found in the recess were from a series of people.
They believed it was very probable that Cervantes was buried in the coffin with the initials MC on it.
The pieces of bones would now be tested to see if the writer’s one were among them.
Cervantes died in poverty and was buried in the grounds of the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in the writers’ district of Madrid’s old city.
According to the scientists, the convent has been extended and rebuilt several times over the years so it is no longer certain where graves are.
Report says some 30 archaeologists, forensic doctors, historians and technicians are taking part in the search for Cervantes’ remains. (dpa/NAN)