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. Investigators in ...

Spanish archaeologists have decoded engravings on the Hand of Irulegi, a bronze relic dating back 2,100 years to Vascones, a late-Iron Age tribe preceding Basque culture. Discovered in Navarre in 2021 ...

In summer 2021, 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 ...