India. Indus.

What about the Indus script?

Now what about the Indus script?

like on the banks of the Indus.

Rajesh Rao A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

And the Indus script now has this particular property.

The Indus script also exhibits similar kinds of patterns.

Like wars over water, such as in the Indus.

We don't have such an artifact for the Indus script.

From the Nile to the Indus, from Samarkand to Babylon.

But in 2007, my path crossed again with the Indus script.

The same thing happens in the case of the Indus script.

It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which developed around 3000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture.

on the banks of a river called the Indus, now in Pakistan.

But the Indus people also left behind artifacts with writing on them.

It shows that the Indus script shares an important property of language.

In the case of the Indus script, the problem is the reverse.

We're going to travel to the Indus River valley, I'll see you then.

What I haven't told you is that the Indus people were very, very enterprising.

And a clash is going to take place, like on the banks of the Indus.

The site occupies a central position between the Indus River and the Ghaggar Hakra River.

We found that the Indus script actually falls within the range of the linguistic scripts.

Arab navigation in the region was the result of the Muslim reign over the Indus delta.

This suggests that the same script, the Indus script, could be used to write different languages.

The Mayans started speaking to us in the 20th century, but the Indus civilization remains silent.

Next week we're going to journey to the Indus River valley wow, it's very fragile, our globe,

There's a second group of people who believe that the Indus script represents an Indo European language.

So some people believe that the Indus script represents an ancient Indo European language such as Sanskrit.

The Ganges river dolphin is primarily found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers and their tributaries in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, while the Indus river dolphin is found in the Indus River in Pakistan and its Beas and Sutlej tributaries.

In some cases territorial apportionment was agreeable to the watercourse States, Indus Water Treaty of 19 September 1960.

It took place, once, in 326 B.C. on the banks of a river called the Indus, now in Pakistan.

Dravidian languages were spoken all over India and that this suggests that the Indus civilization is perhaps also Dravidian.

I've always been fascinated by the Indus script ever since I read about it in a middle school textbook.

Rajesh Rao is fascinated by the mother of all crossword puzzles How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization.

In fact, we don't even know what any of these objects say, and that's because the Indus script is undeciphered.

The results we have so far seem to point to the conclusion that the Indus script probably does represent language.

I'd like to tell you about how I learned to stop worrying and love the challenge posed by the Indus script.

Shell jewellery is found at almost all archaeological sites, including at ancient Aztec ruins, digs in ancient China, and the Indus Valley.

There's a last group of people who believe that the Indus people were the ancestors of people living in South India today.

And so given these formidable obstacles, one might wonder and worry whether one will ever be able to decipher the Indus script.

Ancient inscriptions left by the Indus Valley and Rapa Nui cultures have been discovered, but nobody has been able to decipher them.

On the claimant's side, reference was made to the fact that India continued to effect payments to Pakistan under the Indus River Treaty.

And what seems to have happened here is that the Indus traders, the merchants, were using this script to write a foreign language.

First, there's a group of people who are very passionate in their belief that the Indus script does not represent a language at all.

The Indus civilization does not belong to just the South Indians or the North Indians or the Pakistanis it belongs to all of us.