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The archaeological site of Keeladi has unearthed remnants of an urban settlement, fuelling competing historical claims.
The Indus Valley Civilization's script remains undeciphered despite scholarly efforts and modern AI attempts. Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister has offered a $1 million reward for cracking the code ...
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Unearthing Identity
The discovery of the ancient settlement at Keeladi in Tamil Nadu is much more than an archaeological milestone ~ it is a profound challenge to longstanding narratives about Indian civilisation.
The Indus Valley Civilisation, one of the most ancient urban societies, is renowned for its sophisticated urban planning and enigmatic script, which remains undeciphered to this day. The mystery ...
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.
Uncovering the Indus Valley Script While the Indus Valley Civilization was formally discovered in the 1920s, it wouldn’t be until 1999 that the first pieces of its script were unearthed. Seals, ...
“We are still unable to clearly understand the written script of the once prosperous Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) despite Herculean efforts by archaeologists, linguists, anthropologists, Tamil ...
But the Indus Valley script and language present a special problem: there’s very little textual data to train machines on. Correspondences like the Iron Age parallels noted by Mahadevan could help.
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 ...
Science News: The 4,000-year-old Indus Valley civilization that thrived on the Indo-Pak border might have been a literate society which used a script close to prese ...