Decoding 6,000-Year-Old Language Can Bury North-South Divide
Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...
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No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code
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 ...
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Decoding the Indus Script: Politics, progress, and puzzles
M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...
You Can Win $1 Million If You Decode 4,000-Year-Old Indus Valley Script Mystery
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 ...
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$1 Million Prize Will Go To Whoever Solves The Mystery Of This 5,000-Year-Old Artifact
The script at the heart of the mystery of this 5,000-year-old artifact might be worth a million bucks if you can figure it out.
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Language war between Tamil Nadu and the BJP government
Tamil Nadu rejects New Delhi’s three-language policy imposing Hindi in schools. As a result, the Union government blocked educational funding for the state, fuelling tensions. For his part, Chie ...
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Beyond Mesopotamia
You need lots of examples of the script. You need a good understanding of the cultural context of the writing system. And, most important, you need a bilingual, or better a trilingual, inscription of ...
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Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’
In 1799 French soldiers retrieved a granite slab from a pile of rubble in the town of Rosetta, on the Nile delta. Carved into the stone surface ... was text in Demotic script, an ancient Egyptian ...