The term Indus script refers to short strings of symbols associated with the The Indus Valley Civilization existed along the Indus River and the Vedic Sarasvati River in present-day Pakistan. The Mohenjo-daro ruins pictured above were once the center of this ancient society. The Indus Valley Civilization, 2800 BC–1800 BC, was an ancient civilization thriving along the Indus River... Harappan civilization of ancient The Republic of India is the This is a list of countries by population. The data are generally a projection for July 2005 made by the US Census Bureau, unless specified. Rank Country Population — World 6,445,398,968 1 China 1,306,313,812 2 India 1,080... India, dating to ca. (Redirected from 2600) 2600 can have several meanings: 2600 Hz is the tone used by a blue box to defeat toll charges on long distance telephone calls. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is a magazine named after the above. The Atari 2600 was a popular video game console. 2600 will be... 2600– (Redirected from 1900 BC) (20th century BC - 19th century BC - 18th century BC - other centuries) (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC) Events Hittite empire in Anatolia 1829 - 1818 BC -- Egyptian-Nubian war 1818 BC -- Egyptian Campaign in Palestine 1813 BC -- Amorite Conquest of Northern Mesopotamia 1806 BC... 1900 BC. They are most commonly associated with flat, rectangular stone tablets called seals, but they are also found on at least a dozen other materials. The first publication of a Harappan seal dates to Years: 1872 1873 1874 - 1875 - 1876 1877 1878 Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1875 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Rail transport - Science - Sport Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders Contents // 1 Events 1.1... 1875, in the form of a drawing by Alexander Cunningham. Since then, well over 4000 symbol-bearing objects have been discovered, some as far afield as Mesopotamia. After (Redirected from 1900 BC) (20th century BC - 19th century BC - 18th century BC - other centuries) (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC) Events Hittite empire in Anatolia 1829 - 1818 BC -- Egyptian-Nubian war 1818 BC -- Egyptian Campaign in Palestine 1813 BC -- Amorite Conquest of Northern Mesopotamia 1806 BC... 1900 BC, use of the symbols ends, together with the final stage of Harappan civilization. Some early scholars, starting with Cunningham in Years: 1874 1875 1876 - 1877 - 1878 1879 1880 Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1877 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Rail transport - Science - Sport Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders Contents // 1 Events 1.1... 1877, thought that the script was the archetype of the Brahmi refers to the pre-modern members of the Brahmic family of scripts, attested from the 5th century BC. The best known inscriptions in Brahmi are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka, c. 3rd century BC. It is generally believed to be derived from a Semitic script. Rhys Davids suggests... Brahmi script used by This article is about Ashoka, the emperor. For alternate usages: see Ashoka (disambiguation). Buddhism Terms and concepts History People Schools and sects Texts Temples Culture Buddhism by country Timeline List of topics Ashoka the Great (also Asoka, Aśoka, pronounced as Ashok-uh, not Ashokaa;) was the ruler of... Ashoka. Today Cunningham's claims are rejected by nearly all researchers, but a minority of mostly Indian scholars continues to argue for the Indus script as the predecessor of the The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The individuals abugidas may be called Brahmic scripts or Indic scripts. The term Nagari is also used for those Brahmic scripts that are used to write Indic languages. Brahmic scripts are descended from the Brahmi... Brahmic family. There are over 400 different signs, but many are thought to be slight modifications or combinations of perhaps 200 'basic' signs.

Attempts at decipherment

Over the years, numerous decipherments have been proposed, but none has been accepted by the scientific community at large. The following factors are usually regarded as the biggest obstacles for a successful decipherment:

• The substrate language has not been identified, nor the language family to which it belongs.
• The average length of the inscriptions is less than five signs, the longest being one of only 26 signs.
• No bilingual texts have been found.

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External links

• Indus Script (http://ancientscripts.com/indus.html) (ancientscripts.com)
• Collection of essays about the Indus script (http://www.safarmer.com/downloads/)
• The Indus Script (http://www.harappa.com/script/index.html) (Asko Parpola)
• Horseplay in Harappa (http://www.flonnet.com/fl1720/17200040.htm) article by Witzel and Farmer debunking the claim of decipherment made by N.S. Rajaram and Dr. N. Jha
  • A reply to Frontline’s cover story by Michael Danino (http://micheldanino.voiceofdharma.com/frontline.html)
• The collapse of the Indus-script thesis: The myth of a literate Harappan civilization (http://www.safarmer.com/fsw2.pdf) (Farmer, Sproat, and Witzel PDF, 2004)
• The Vedic Harappans in writing by Dr. Koenraad Elst (http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/aid/vedicharrapans.html)