The origin of the Basque language, spoken today by a few hundred thousand speakers, is a mystery.
Specialists consider it “isolated”, with no known roots in other linguistic groups, notably Indo-European.
By analyzing a vestige in the shape of a bronze hand, dating back 2000 years, discovered in the western Pyrenees, in the region of present-day Navarre, archaeologists are nevertheless in the process of finding a connection with it.
Dating back 2,100 years, the hand was extracted from the excavation site of Irulegi, near Pamplona, Spain.
Cambridge University Press, Mattin Aiestaran et al.
On this exceptional piece, made by the Vascons, a cultural group from the end of the Iron Age, researchers noted…
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