More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River in present-day northwest India and ...

New Delhi: The ambiguity associated with the context and usage of the Indus signs has made the problem of the Indus writing system more challenging. But this has not deterred scholars worldwide from ...

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 ...

A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A statistical analysis reveals distinct patterns in ancient Indus symbols, and creates a hypothetical model for the unknown language. Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on ...

Save this one for when you have time to sit back and really absorb it. Rajesh Rao, a professor in the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department, is leading a charge to use ...

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 ...

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 ...