Thousands of seals and short inscriptions have been discovered across Indus sites like Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, but their writing system has never been fully deciphered. In this video, we explore the ...

The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, based on the Sumerian language, was published as early as 1925. More than a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...