For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script. Theories have ...

About 4,000 ancient plates, made of materials like stone and copper, are inscribed with the mysterious script. It consists of odd letter-like symbols ... Like their contemporaries, the Indus ...

Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

The Indus script did not phonetically spell out words, she added. It had no alphabets or syllables and used symbols to explain different words and meanings. “Each Indus script sign has a rich ...

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

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying ...

The announcement was made after a new study by K Rajan and R Sivananthan said it had found “parallels” between Indus script symbols and ... experts, the meaning behind the Indus' written ...

facing challenges similar to the Indus script. Others, like Rongorongo (Easter Island) and Zapotec (Mexico), have known languages, "but their symbols remain unclear". The Phaistos Disc from Crete ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization ... like text showing its symbols in translation, are among ...