Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Current Events & Pop Culture

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Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture

The Search

Finding bones shouldn't be that big of a deal, right? Well, apparently when you're looking for a guy with an unmarked grave that is several hundred years old, you're hunting for the literary Holy Grail (a.k.a. Cervantes's bones). The BBC reports on the slow and steady progress scientists are making toward unearthing Cervantes's corpse. Ew.

Excerpt

Forensic scientists in Spain have announced plans to search a Madrid convent for the body of the 17th Century author, Miguel de Cervantes.