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 ...

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 - ...

New Delhi, April 23: Scientists have obtained what may be the first mathematical evidence to support the idea that the 4500-year-old inscriptions from the Indus civilisation were graphic ...

DADU: Indus script and its variant have been discovered etched in stones in Khirthar Range of mountains near Wahi Pandhi town by research scholar Prof Aziz Kingrani. The script has so far been found ...

Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this ...

Deciphering the Indus script could reveal if Indus seals were the first currency. These seals, diversified in their uses, might have economic significance and depicted guilds or clans. Interaction ...

Iravatham Mahadevan had always been curious about ancient scripts, deciphering them becoming a lifelong passion. One of the most celebrated researchers of scripts in the Indian subcontinent, he began ...

The Indus valley civilization flourished some 6000 years ago over a large part of what is today Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwestern India. It was one of the most advanced and urbanized ...

A majority of the Indus Valley inscriptions were written logographically (by using word signs) and not by using phonograms (speech sounds units), claims a recent research paper published in Palgrave ...