The latest such prize was offered last month by the chief minister of one Indian state: $1 million to anyone who can decode the script of the Indus Valley ... along a grid system like New York ...

We have not been able to clearly understand the writing system of the once flourishing Indus Valley,' he said ... do know some details about the Indus civilization, also known as Harappan ...

Weight measurement system? Some of its artifacts? Experts still don’t know. But one mystery looms larger than the rest: How, when and why did the Indus valley civilization disappear? Experts ...

The Indus Valley Civilization ... settlements were laid on a similar grid pattern, with large communal buildings and the world’s earliest sanitation system—a degree of urban planning not ...

There were more than 1,400 towns and cities in the Indus Valley. The names Harappa and ... the roads and the buildings all fit together in a grid system. And down the middle is a big, wide ...

Yet, despite its accomplishments, much about the Indus Valley Civilization remains a mystery—particularly its writing system.