How is the identity of a culture transferred? For many cultures it’s through geography or heritage. But what if it was knowledge of a language that conferred a people’s identity. Continuing our series ...

I spent a number of days in the Basque Country last weekend. I was there to speak at a conference organised by Gure Esku, a Basque organisation similar to Ireland’s Future, of which I am a member.

The genetic make-up and distinctive language of the Basque people in northern Spain and southern France has intrigued anthropologists for years. Now a new study suggests they descend from a group of ...

On March 19, hundreds of thousands of Basque citizens will participate in an initiative that passes a baton from hand to hand without interruption; the same baton that has become a symbol of the ...

The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe's most mysterious tongues. Investigators in northern Spain said ...

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 ...

When Gen Francisco Franco banned the use of the ancient Euskara language, residents of the Basque Country fought to keep it alive. From my car window, I watched Spain transform. From Madrid in the ...

Discover how the Basque people, speakers of a unique non-Indo-European language, challenge our understanding of European ancestry. The labels are Dienekes', so don't take them literally. Additionally, ...

Much has changed in Spain's Basque Country over the three and a half decades since dictator Francisco Franco died in November 1975. The huge, titanium-plated Guggenheim museum on the banks of the ...

Engravings on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand could be connected to an ancient language, according to a new study. The artefact was first discovered in 2021 at an archaeological site in the Pyrenees in ...