Seals by script of civilization credit Indus Valley | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Archaeological Survey of India (probably) will host a three -day international conference on brainstorming about the ways of decrypting the Indus Valley script.
Invitations to International Conclave to “Deficiation of the Indus script: Current State and Way”, which will take place from 20 to 22 August on PT. Deendayal Upiphyay Institute of Archaeology, Greater Noida, was sent to experts working on civilization and harappan culture in India and abroad.
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Offer tamil over cm
Movement comes months after Minister Tamil Nadu MK Stalin announced the price of $ 1 million for experts or organizations that succeed in decrypting the Indus civilization scripts.
The sources in the Hindu said that there were also plans to announce the Community notification for research scholars who are interested in the determination of Indus script decryption.
Sources said that the seminar will take place mainly through presentations, both offline and online. The thematic sessions must be designed on the basis of the current research phase in this area. The discussion is governed by presentations at the end of each session.
The documents are expected to be submitted before the date of the seminar. The expected results will include, but will not be limited to better understanding and documentation of the current state of research in this area and potential for further research.
“It is expected that the proceedings at the seminar will emphasize the scope and quantum of current and future research in the field,” said the higher official about.
Indus Valley civilization was discovered more than 100 years ago in 1921 in Harappa and was formally announced to the world in 1924 by John Marshall, the then CEO of about.
According to Records, the first official report on excavations in Mohenjo-Daro in 1931 had a section on the “Indus script”. He also mentioned various symbols and their variants.
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Since then a puzzle
This script attracted and fascinated a number of archaeologists, epigraphists, scientists and many others who sincerely tried to solve his puzzles, not to read it. Schooliers have proposed several hypotheses about the nature and content of this script.
Most examples of this script were found on Harappan’s seal and their impressions. Other objects that have retained this script are tablets of metal and terracotta, copper objects, ceramics, etc.
The corpus of documented script characters suggests that they are predominantly pictorial. The rough estimate of the main characters states them to more than 400. This led to some scientists to assume that the Indus script is primarily a “logo-sex”, the official said.
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Main challenges
The main restrictions on the script decryption are the absence of bilingual texts and the relatively short nature of the recorded samples.
Computational linguistic analysis added a new dimension to the study and decryption of Indus script.
According to Bhaata Ansumali Mukthopathyaya, who is now working on the Harappan scenario for more than ten years and is one of the invitations to the conference, most of the Indus scripts were agnostic-that people could understand people from different parts of Indus civilization. The script was largely used to record commercial administration, such as tax and license information, seal and tablets.
Mrs. Mukathyay says that her research suggests that although the predecessor of the predators of the predatian language spoke by an important population of Indus civilization, the area of one million square of ancient civilization had to have other groups of languages. In some of the Indus script characters, ancient predatian symbolism is found.
He claims that “Sanskrit was most likely the language that influenced Indus script. However, the symbolism of Indus civilization certainly influenced Vedic texts and culture and remained alive in different forms across different languages and cultures across the Indian subcontinent.”
However, according to archaeologist Ravi Korisettar, all demands are still hypothetical because the symbols are not complete. “So far, at the Indus valley, we have not been able to find any bilingual records found in at least a few sentences. Therefore, serious archaeologists are staying any claims for decryption script,” he said.
Published – June 19, 2025 22:33 is
