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FILE In this Dec 6 2009 file photo Italian researcher Antonio

Summary: <p>FILE In this Dec 6 2009 file photo Italian researcher Antonio Moretti collects bones on a wooden board inside the crypt of San Sebastiano cemetery in Porto Ercole Italy Italian researchers say they may be close to identifying the remains of Caravaggio the great Italian painter whose death 400 years ago is shrouded in mystery The researchers have been studying bones found in a Tuscan town where Caravaggio died in 1610 They said Friday May 14 2010 that carbon dating and other analyses show that one set of bones belonged to a man who died in the same period as the artist and at an age between 37 and 45 Caravaggio died at 39 in Porto Ercole Tuscany To this day his remains are officially missing < p>

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