Experts believe they have found the remains of famed Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in a Madrid convent.

Releasing the latest details of the nearly yearlong search, forensic anthropologist Francisco Etxeberria said on Tuesday that investigators' work led them to believe that Cervantes' bones are among the remains of 15 bodies found in the crypt of the Barefoot Trinitarians. However, he said, the researchers were unable to isolate them or prove definitively which belonged to the author of the Spanish language's most revered work, Don Quixote.

Etxeberria said scientists would try to create DNA profiles of the bones, but he said they were not sure if this would be possible. Cervantes had no known descendants.