Los vascones aparecen en las fuentes escritas recién en el s. I a.C., cuando Roma ya dominaba Hispania.
¿Pueblo prerromano “invisible” hasta entonces, o grupo consolidado bajo la órbita romana?
https://terricex.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/los-vascones-entre-lo-prerromano-y-lo-romano/
The Hand of Irulegi (cool name!) has writing on it, and is from the time of the Vascones, the forerunners of the Basques. The one word that’s been deciphered so far is nearly the same as the modern Basque word for “fortunate”, so it’s probably a good luck amulet. It was not known before that the Vascones were literate before contact with the Romans; this shows that they were.
#archaeology #Basques #Vascones #AncientWriting #TheHandOfIrulegi — https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-2100-year-old-bronze-hand-may-help-rewrite-the-history-of-basque-language-180981153/
A stunning new archeological find suggests that the Iron-Age Vascones of northern Spain (precursors of the Basque) actually had their own written language, and were not in fact illiterate until the Roman Empire as traditional history has had it.
#archeology #discovery #find #basque #ancestors #vascones #writing #language #revisedHistory #spain #ironAge #literacy #history