New search underway for civil war grave of poet Lorca Now a local historian, Miguel Caballero Perez, believes he has identified the true grave of Lorca, author of Blood Wedding, Yerma and the House of Bernada Alba, and has applied for permission to carry out archaeological studies on the area. When the search proved to be fruitless another historian took up the challenge and believes he has now located the true grave - less than half a kilometre away from the original site. Mr Caballero, author of "The last 13 hours of Garcia Lorca" in which he pieced together the hours leading to Lorca's death by firing squad after sifting through police and military archives, is waiting for permission from the town hall of Alcafar to conduct detailed geographical and archaeological studies of the zone. His first request, made three months ago has been ignored, and he said he will lodge another on Monday. The explorations, which Mr Caballero says he will fund himself, will be conducted by Javier Navarro Cheuca, an archaeologist at the University of Zaragoza who has carried out excavations at dozens of civil war mass graves in other parts of Spain.