{"id":183329,"date":"2024-02-22T07:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bizarre-2000-year-old-bronze-hand-found-covered-in-mysterious-writing"},"modified":"2024-02-22T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:25:37","slug":"bizarre-2000-year-old-bronze-hand-found-covered-in-mysterious-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bizarre-2000-year-old-bronze-hand-found-covered-in-mysterious-writing","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Hand Found Covered in Mysterious Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hCtLBKAv_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have come across a wonderfully intriguing find in the north of Spain: a bronze hand dating back some 2,000 years, all the way back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/archeologists-uncover-exciting-time-capsule-of-celtic-iron-age-artefacts-in-england\">the Iron Age<\/a>, with four lines of strange symbols inscribed across its top.<\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that this ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epigraphy\">epigraph<\/a> is related to ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paleohispanic_languages\">Paleohispanic languages<\/a>, and may have been part of the language that has developed into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basque_language\">Basque<\/a> in modern day Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The area is known to have been populated by a tribe called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vascones\">the Vascones<\/a> around the time the hand would\u2019ve been made \u2013 a tribe that left behind very little in the way of writing samples, which has led to the assumption that they were pre-literate. This hand shows that might not be the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have come across a wonderfully intriguing find in the north of Spain: a bronze hand dating back some 2,000 years, all the way back to the Iron Age, with four lines of strange symbols inscribed across its top. A new study suggests that this ancient epigraph is related to ancient Paleohispanic languages, and may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}