The government of Tamil Nadu has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the cryptic script of ...

In southern Tamil Nadu, along the quiet curve of the Vaigai river, lies Keeladi, which until 2013, rarely featured in ...

Spanning 3300 B.C.E. to 1300 B.C.E, the Indus Valley civilization represents one of the area’s earliest societies, flourishing the fertile plains of the Indus River.

Though the script has remained unsolved since its earliest samples were published in 1875, we do know a little about Indus Valley culture itself – thanks to archaeological excavations of major ...

The Indus Valley civilization, ... Since the Archaeological Survey of India announced the first findings on the civilization in 1924, around 5,000 inscriptions have been excavated.

Indus inscriptions are all very short, making the challenge of trying to decipher them harder. The average length of the inscriptions is around five signs, while the longest only 34 characters long.

Lakhs of Akkadian inscriptions dating back to 3,500 BCE have been discovered in Mesopotamia, but there aren’t enough scholars alive to decipher even a fraction of these vast records of an empire.

The roots of the Indus Valley Civilisation can be traced back to 7,000 BCE. Over the next three millennia, thousands of Indus settlements comprising cities, towns, craft-centric and ...

CHENNAI: Scholars including professors and archaeologists contended that the Indus valley civilisation is not an Aryan civilisation and that the language of the ...

Similarities between the Indus Valley script and ancient Tamil Nadu graffiti include the presence of cows in inscriptions pottery, seals and tablets (Picture: wikimedia/Getty) Codebreakers could ...