Spain finds remains of 'Don Quixote' writer Cervantes
Source: AFP
Spain on Tuesday unearthed the remains of Spanish literary giant Miguel de Cervantes in a Madrid convent nearly 400 years after his death.
Anthropologist Francisco Etxebarria said his team had positively identified in an alcove in a convent crypt "some fragments belonging to Miguel de Cervantes", the "Don Quixote" author who died in 1616 a week after William Shakespeare.
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Botany
(70,627 posts)Orrex
(63,247 posts)Because the remains in Spain stay mainly on the plains.
drm604
(16,230 posts)Here's a longer article with more info.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31852032
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)Why??? Why did they disturb this grave? I am not famous. Glad to know that I will be allowed to "Rest in Peace".
Actually, I have decided to be cremated....it is cheaper, does not take up much space and no one needs to responsible for maintaining a cemetery lot.
Igel
(35,383 posts)One holds Cervantes' remains along with family members all intermingled.
For most "great men" there's a tendency to want to have a marked grave for those who want to pay respects, build monuments, that sort of thing.
But otherwise they're just bones and scraps of remains. They were rotting where they were. (I'm not one of those who particularly cares what happens. Disturbed, not disturbed; cremated, fed to vultures, recycled as fertilizer ...)
jwirr
(39,215 posts)and move him and his family to the site they are now excavating. So they have been looking for him for a long time. One of the searchers indicated that once his is identified they will rebury him with his family where he originally asked to be buried.
Beakybird
(3,334 posts)Now that they found the plot!
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
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niyad
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(113,701 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)And there were many, many really good scenes in Man of La Mancha. The creators were geniuses. (That includes Cervantes, from whom all Don Quiote stories flow.)
niyad
(113,701 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)Fascist Regime would allow the anthropologist to find the remains of the poet and writer, Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed by the Franco government in 1936 probably for being Gay more than for his political ideas. The current government does not want his remains found.