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Will the Indus Valley script ever be deciphered?

The Indus Valley script dates back around 4,000 years but has yet to be deciphered. Can AI help decode it?

What the Indus script, ‘discovered’ a hundred years ago, reveals about the ancient civilisation

The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, based on the Sumerian language, was published as early as 1925. More than a ...
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You Can Win $1 Million Dollars If You Can Decipher This 5,300-Year-Old Indus Valley Script

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

Officials Are Offering $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decode This Ancient Script

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today’s historians haven’t yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language?

Over the decades, archaeologists have turned up a great many artifacts from the Indus civilization, including stamp sealings, amulets and small tablets. Robert Harding / Photo Library The Indus ...