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 ...

Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...

There's a lot of debate on whether the Indus valley script is evolved enough to be categorised as 'linguistic'. Nature India traces the history of scientific work regarding this, the latest findings ...

Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers - ...

The Indus script, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, remains undeciphered despite its use of boustrophedon writing, read alternately left to right and right to left. Featuring pictographic ...

Using computational and statistical techniques to search for patterns in Indus writing, fresh research 1 concludes that it fits the description of 'linguistic writing' – a system rigid enough to ...

Iravatham Mahadevan has had an almost lifetime engagement with the Indus Valley Civilisation. He argues that any common feature between the Vedic language and old ...

An as yet undeciphered script found on relics from the Indus valley constitutes a genuine written language, a new mathematical analysis suggests. The finding is the latest chapter in a bitter dispute ...