Though the Basque and Armenian languages share no superficial resemblances, they do share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements. A few steps from the entrance to the Cathedral of the ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient bronze artifact, the hand of Irulegi, with writing in an early Basque alphabet previously unknown. Photo from Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi Archaeologists in Spain ...

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 ...