Four thousand years ago, the sprawling Indus valley civilization dominated the area of modern-day India and Pakistan. Although considered one of the world’s earliest civilizations and the subject of ...
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 ...
Figure 1. 'Unicorn' stamp seal and modern impression. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access/Public domain In my previous post, I discussed the Indian subcontinent's first civilization and ...
A group of codebreakers could potentially win a prize of £800,000 if they succeed in translating a 5,000-year-old language that has never been deciphered before. This challenge revolves around ancient ...
Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...
Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...
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