Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

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 ...

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...