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Officials Are Offering $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decode This Ancient Script

More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River in present-day northwest India and ...
The New York Times

Want a Million Dollars? Get Busy Deciphering This Ancient Script.

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi It is a riddle that has ...
CNN

No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...
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Scholars call for digitisation of Indus script symbols. It’ll make decoding easier

New Delhi: The ambiguity associated with the context and usage of the Indus signs has made the problem of the Indus writing system more challenging. But this has not deterred scholars worldwide from ...