The Indus Valley Civilization left behind a mysterious script carved into seals, tablets, and pottery—but we still don’t know what it says. In this episode, we explore what archaeologists and ...

The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ...

The Indus script, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, remains undeciphered despite its use of boustrophedon writing, read alternately left to right and right to left. Featuring pictographic ...

A statistical analysis reveals distinct patterns in ancient Indus symbols, and creates a hypothetical model for the unknown language. Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on ...

Along the Indus River in what is now known as northwest India and Pakistan, a civilization emerged more than 5,300 years ago.

Figure 1. 'Unicorn' stamp seal and modern impression. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access/Public domain In my previous post, I discussed the Indian subcontinent's first civilization and ...

Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...