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

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.

An archaeological discovery in a quiet Tamil Nadu village has sparked a fierce battle over history, identity and politics ...

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 ...

Archaeological finds from Keezhadi in Tamil Nadu dating to 580 BCE suggest a sophisticated ancient Tamil civilisation, ...

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.

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

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 ...