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Rajesh Rao: Computing a Rosetta Stone for the Indus script



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Among the fabulously large body of artefacts unearthed at Dholavira two Indus inscriptions, one on wood and the other on stone, stand out. The inscription on wood, with 10 signs, is spectacularly large and is the longest inscription discovered so far at any Indus site in the Indian subcontinent. Each is 35 cm to 37 cm tall and 25 cm to 27 cm broad. The 10 signs constitute a work of great craftsmanship. Each sign is made of several pieces, which have been inlaid on a wooden board.
The signboard must have been placed above the north gate of the citadel that existed at the Harappan city of Dholavira. All the signs are made of thoroughly baked gypsum and their white brilliance must have made the board visible from afar.
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The Indus civilisation had a volumetric system with inscriptions on ceramic vessels (glazed pots from Harappa) indicating that the sign V stood for a measure, a long linear stroke equalled 10, two long strokes stood for 20 and a short stroke represented one, according to Bryan Wells, who has been researching the Indus script for more than 20 years.
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The undeciphered script of the Indus Valley civilisation holds the key to a question with sharp political overtones: were the people of the subcontinents earliest recorded civilisation Aryans or Dravidians? Or neither?

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Computers unlock more secrets of the mysterious Indus Valley script
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric people have been discovered. Today, a team of Indian and American researchers are using mathematics and computer science to try to piece together information about the still-unknown script.
The team led by a University of Washington researcher has used computers to extract patterns in ancient Indus symbols. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows distinct patterns in the symbols' placement in sequences and creates a statistical model for the unknown language.

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A University of Washington computer scientist has led a statistical study of the Indus script, comparing the pattern of symbols to various linguistic scripts and nonlinguistic systems, including DNA and a computer programming language. The results, published online Thursday by the journal Science, found the Indus script's pattern is closer to that of spoken words, supporting the hypothesis that it codes for an as-yet-unknown language.

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