Discovery

The hand that "looked like Asterix's helmet" and its five words in the old language of the Basques

Everything new told by the bronze hand of the Navarrese town of Irulegi, devastated by the Romans 2,100 years ago. The deciphered word "sorioneku' reveals that it was an amulet "to bring good closer and ward off evil." At the site, other evidence of own vocabulary and writing has appeared

    The hand of the Bronze Age with its Basque inscriptions. ARANZADI SCIENCE SOCIETY