Crucially, there isn’t yet a bilingual artifact containing both the Indus Valley script and its translation into another language, as the Rosetta Stone does for ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek. And ...

Then, the race to translate the Rosetta Stone began. Though the use of hieroglyphics ... the more informal Demotic script, and the administrative language of ancient Greek. Once scholars had ...

MK Stalin, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, announced a $1 million reward in January for anyone who can successfully decode the Indus script. Mr Stalin said, "We are still unable to clearly ...

Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on a mission in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was a most fortunate find. The stone’s three blocks of alternating script provided the key to deciphering ...

Five hundred years later, even this restricted knowledge of how to read and write them had disappeared - the script of Ancient Egypt was lost. The Rosetta Stone survived unread through two ...

The Rosetta Stone was produced in 196BCE but ... scholars were able to unravel the mystery of the ancient Egyptian script. The stone would have lain undiscovered if it hadn’t been for Napoleon ...

Yajnadevam, aka Bharath Rao, is a rare cryptographer – among epigraphists, archaeologists, linguists etc – who can claim to have cracked the code to deciphering the Indus Valley script. The earliest ...

Five hundred years later, even this restricted knowledge of how to read and write them had disappeared - the script of Ancient Egypt was lost. The Rosetta Stone survived unread through two ...