article_snippet: Forensic scientists said Forensic scientistsfound the bones of the famous Spanish writer and his family in Madrid's Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians.
article_snippet: The author of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha,' considered the most influential work of Spanish literature bones were lost for centuries until earlier this year when archaeologists used 3D scanners, infrared cameras and ground-penetrating radar to discover  a forgotten crypt under the new building.
article_snippet: Researchers said separating and identifying The author of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha,' considered the most influential work of Spanish literature will be difficult but work is underway to recover His bones.
article_snippet: His remains are in a bad state of conservation and do not allow the team of anthropologists and archaeologists to do an individual identification of Miguel de Cervantes,' forensic scientist Almudena Garcia Rubio told the BBC.
article_snippet: Experts analyse bones to find the remains of the 17th Century author Miguel de Cervantes at the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in Madrid .
article_snippet: Miguel de Cervantes remains are lost went when Convent of Barefoot Trinitarians is rebuilt .
article_snippet: His remains were then lost for centuries after bones which they have determined belong to the late author Miguel de Cervantes mysteriously went missing in 1673 when building works was done at Convent of Barefoot Trinitarians.
article_snippet: Experts searching for the lost remains of the author of Don Quixote found wooden fragments of a casket bearing Don Quixote initials with bones in and around Experts searching for the lost remains of the author of Don Quixote in a crypt in Madrid .
article_snippet: Miguel de Cervantes bones went missing in 1673 when work was undertaken at the Convent of Trinitarians in Madrid where he was buried.
highlights_snippet: Miguel de Cervantes remains went missing centuries ago when work was done to convent .
  