The Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered: discovering Sumerians of Indus Valley as PhCOL. WADDELL, the well-known authority on Tibet, has stepped in where archologists, as yet, fear to tread. He has produced an inter
Indus Valley Seals It has long been claimed that the Indus Valley was the home of a literate civilization, but this has recently been challenged on linguistic and archaeological grounds. Well over 400 Indus symbols have been found on seals or ceramic pots and over a dozen other materials, incl...
TheIndus Civilization—also called the Indus Valley Civilization, Harappan, Indus-Sarasvati or Hakra Civilization—was based in an area of some 1.6 million square kilometers in what is today eastern Pakistan and northeastern India between about 2500-1900 BC. There are 2,600 known Indus sites, fr...
Not unlike the early writing of Egyptian andSumerian culture(c.4500-2270 BCE), Indus Valley culture also produced its own writing system, with a range of about 600 distinct symbols (typically no more than four or five characters in length), which have been found on seals, small stone or ...
The Indus Valley Civilization refers to a widespread tradition that emerged in the fourth millennium BCE, encompassing urban sites like Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, along with many other settlements across a vast region. It is characterized by standardization, stability, and cultural efflorescence, with ...
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This study conducts an epigraphic analysis of the yet undeciphered inscriptions of the ancient Indus Valley civilization and seeks to prove that just like proto-cuneiform administrative tablets of ancient Mesopotamia, or modern fiscal stamps and ration tokens, Indus seals and tablets too were formaliz...
The seals of the Indus Valley show that the pictographs remained statis, whereas, the Aryan language in the Rig Veda at places rises to musical levels. The success with which the Aryan writings were composed reveals the ability of the Aryan mind to grasp the mulitiple dimensions of human ...
Ever since the discovery of Indus valley civilization, scholars have debated the linguistic identities of its people. This study analyzes numerous archaeological, linguistic, archaeogenetic and historical evidences to claim that the words used for elephant (like, ‘pīri’, ‘pīru’) in Bronze Age...
The Indus Valley civilization was literate -- we know this from seals inscribed with a script that is now only in the process of being deciphered. [An aside:When it is finally deciphered, it should be a big deal, as was Sir Arthur Evans' deciphering ofLinear B. Linear A still needs ...