Forensic scientists in Madrid believe they have found the tomb of famed author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes, who wrote The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, was buried in 1616, but his coffin was lost.
The researchers used radar, infrared cameras, and 3D scanners to locate the burial crypt below Madrid's Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians, and found bones believed to be those of Cervantes and his wife.
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