And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient ... on the sixth volume of “Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions,” a database ...

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley ...

and stone seals. Each script has an average of five signs or symbols with no long texts. The Indus Valley Civilisation existed across northwestern parts of South Asia between 5,300 and 3,300 years ...

on Indus ceramics are identified as graffiti. The ones engraved on seals and other metal objects of the IVC are designated as script. Even though both were written by the same people, they were ...

But the ancient Indus people – native ... necklaces and exquisitely carved seal stone. Etched in of these artefacts is an unusual and complex script, which researchers are racing to decipher.

There are many challenges to deciphering the Indus script. First, the relatively small number of scripts - about 4,000 of them, almost all on small objects such as seals, pottery and tablets.

Deciphering the Indus script will reveal whether the Indus seals were the earliest form of currency. “However, these seals were made and used for multiple purposes including economic activities ...