![]() The easiest one is where a known language is written in a known script, like English written using Roman alphabets. In The Lost River, Michel Danino writes that the only safe statement that can be made is that the seals played an important part in trade and permitted the identification of either traders or their goods.ĭecipherment of Indus writing is hard because it falls into the most difficult category in the relation between script and language. ![]() There has been no dearth of decipherments: many have read proto-Dravidian into the script and others Sanskrit. Decoding this writing would not only reveal details of life during that period, but also put an end to various debates over the identity of the residents of the Indus region. There are over 4200 inscriptions, on seals, on tablets and on pottery of the 400 signs, only 200 have been used more than five times. One of the most puzzling unsolved mysteries of the ancient world is the writing system of the Indus-Saraswati civilisation. ![]() Margalit Fox reveals the life and struggles of the people behind the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown language in an unknown script, similar to Indus-Saraswati writing. ![]()
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