The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163442 Message #4157736
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
15-Nov-22 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth)
Subject: RE: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth)
Hand of Irulegi: ancient Spanish artefact could help trace origins of Basque language The Vascones, an iron age tribe from whose language modern Basque is thought to descend, previously viewed as largely illiterate.
More than 2,000 years after it was probably hung from the door of a mud-brick house in northern Spain to bring luck, a flat, lifesize bronze hand engraved with dozens of strange symbols could help scholars trace the development of one of the world’s most mysterious languages...