More inscriptions were found in the 1990s, but the Indus script corpus is not abundant. Then an inscription is tantalisingly brief: many consist of only a single character, the average has fewer than ...
The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today’s historians haven’t yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to ...
The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ...
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A museum in need of care

The Swami Omananda Saraswati Museum in Haryana, home to thousands of Indus Valley artefacts, faces neglect despite holding treasures that could reshape India's ancient history and unlock the mysteries ...
The government of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher ...
Figure 1. 'Unicorn' stamp seal and modern impression. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access/Public domain In my previous post, I discussed the Indian subcontinent's first civilization and ...