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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers ... bronzes, and stamp seals. But, alas, no Rosetta Stone-like text has surfaced to aid their decipherment.

Deciphering the Indus script will reveal whether the Indus seals were the earliest form of currency. “However, these seals were made and used for multiple purposes including economic activities ...