A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

A century after its discovery, the Indus Valley Civilisation remains at the centre of debates over its origins, increasingly ...

On September 20, 2024, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin expressed his gratitude to John Marshall, the late British ...

Calling the Indus script a “mercantile script”, Ms Mukhopadhyay ... Dr Parpola congratulated him on a book he had written, but expressed regret that his findings had not substantially advanced ...

Despite the mystery surrounding the script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) for over a century, India's Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has declared a $1 million prize for anyone who can ...

A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was ...

“That time was very fruitful for me and I explored many books on this subject and learned ... writing also disappeared,” she said. The Indus script did not phonetically spell out words ...

The paper (The collapse of Indus Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilisation ... some scholars hoped to find snippets of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey”, but found a palace book-keeping ...

Books and reading ... the Sumerian script on Cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia was from around 5,000 years ago – similar writing forms took place in the Indus Valley and China, and so, he ...

“That time was very fruitful for me and I explored many books on this subject and learned how ancient ... administrative tools like writing also disappeared,” she said. The Indus script did not ...

Chennai: Days after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced that the Iron Age existed in Tamil Nadu parallel to the Copper/Bronze Age of the Indus Valley Civilisation ... a retired journalist ...