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$1 Million Reward For Cracking The 5,300-year-old Indus Valley Script Mystery
The government of Tamil Nadu has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the cryptic script of ...
ASI to host three-day international conclave in August on decoding Indus Valley script
ASI to host international conference on deciphering Indus Valley script, with focus on research and potential future studies.
The Print on MSN2d
ASI is now calling researchers to crack a 100-year-old mystery—Indus Valley script
The Archaeological Survey of India will host a three-day-long international conference on cracking the Indus script in August ...
CNN3mon
No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code
Many of those Indus relics are very small, often stone seals measuring one square inch – meaning the script on them is short, most sequences containing only four or five symbols. Crucially ...
Indiatimes5mon
‘Indus seals show civilisation was incredibly diverse’
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 ...
BBC5mon
A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
There are many challenges to deciphering the Indus script. First, the relatively small number of scripts - about 4,000 of them, almost all on small objects such as seals, pottery and tablets.
The New York Times4mon
Want a Million Dollars? Get Busy Deciphering This Ancient Script.
The script is meant to be read as symbols ... Mr. Parpola, who is working on the sixth volume of “Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions,” a database of all available material culture on ...