Beyond the possible connection to the Basque language, archaeologists also believe the hand may shed new light on the Vascones, a late Iron Age tribe that researchers believe gave rise to Basque ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe’s most mysterious tongues.

Linguists have long thought that the Basque language, which derives from the mountainous region of northern Spain and southern France, was only some 500 years old. Now, the discovery of an ancient ...

The Basques are one of the oldest cultures in Europe, with roots in the Basque Country going back thousands of years. “They have their own language which is not related to any other language in ...

Inscriptions found on a 2000-year-old metal hand may be written in a language related to modern-day Basque. If this interpretation is correct, it could help explain the origins of the Basque ...

Last summer, archaeologists in northern Spain were excited to unearth a flat, hand-shaped artifact made of bronze from a dig site not far from Pamplona. But only later, when they began the careful ...