Spanish archaeologists find ancient writing on 2,100-year-old bronze hand

STORY: Spanish archaeologists find ancient writing on 2,100-year-old bronze hand DATELINE: Nov. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:54 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Vascon settlement on Mount Irulegi, near the Valley of Aranguren, close to Pamplona, the capital of Spain's northern Navarre region 2. various of researchers excavating the settlement with pictures of the 2,100-year-old bronze "Hand of Irulegi" 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): JAVIER VELAZA, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Barcelona 4. various of researchers excavating and the hand with the Basque text 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): JOAQUIN GORROCHATEGUI, Professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country 6. various of pictures of the "Hand of Irulegi" 7. various of the Vascon settlement on Mount Irulegi STORYLINE: Archaeologists in Spain discovered a bronze hand believed to be 2,100 years old on which one of the oldest known languages, the Basque language, was inscribed. The bronze hand, k