The enigmatic Indus Valley writing system and seals A seal with a unicorn and inscription, circa 2000 B.C. Pakistan, Indus Valley Civilization. Steatite; overall: 1.37 by 1.41 inches (3.5 by 3.6 cm).

After the demise of the Indus Valley Civilization, writing would not reappear in the subcontinent for another millennium. Thousands of inscriptions have been found, mostly on seals, impressions of ...

Yadav pointed to seals found in West Asia, far from the Indus Valley; while they used the same Indus signs, they followed entirely different patterns, suggesting the script may have evolved to be ...

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 ...

Spanning 3300 B.C.E. to 1300 B.C.E, the Indus Valley civilization represents one of the area’s earliest societies, flourishing the fertile plains of the Indus River.

Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged ...

It is a riddle that has confounded scholars for over a century. And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization.

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also called the Indus Civilisation, was a significant Bronze Age civilisation that flourished in the northwestern regions of South Asia. It thrived between c ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation was discovered more than a 100 years ago in 1921 at Harappa, and was formally announced to the world in 1924 by John Marshall, the then Director-General of the ASI.