Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations. These self-proclaimed codebreakers - ...

Deciphering the Indus script could reveal if Indus seals were the first currency. These seals, diversified in their uses, might have economic significance and depicted guilds or clans. Interaction ...

They were one of the most advanced societies during the Bronze Age more than 5,000 years ago. But the ancient Indus people – native to modern-day Pakistan and Northern India – left behind an ancient ...

You don’t have to buy a lottery ticket to win a million dollars thanks to an offer from southern India's Tamil Nadu state, but there is a catch: you need to be able to decipher 5,300-year-old writing.

Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From 3300 to 1700 BC, the Indus people built impressive cities like Mohenjo-daro ...

Punching in emojis and hashtags, we might pride ourselves in thinking we are singularly placed in history but we would be much mistaken. Across time and civilisations, human beings have improvised on ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will host a three-day international brainstorming conference in August on ways to decipher the Indus Valley script. Invitations to the international conclave ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday threw an ancient unsolved riddle towards the people, sparking amusement around the Indus valley script once again. The Indus valley script remains a ...