{"id":3295,"date":"2025-02-01T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/deciphering-ancient-indus-valley-script-could-earn-you-1-million\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T06:42:25","slug":"deciphering-ancient-indus-valley-script-could-earn-you-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/deciphering-ancient-indus-valley-script-could-earn-you-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Deciphering Ancient Indus Valley Script Could Earn You $1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is a riddle that has confounded scholars for over a century. And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Relatively little is known about the creators of the script, who built a sprawling urban system about 5,000 years ago across what is modern-day India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Excavations at more than 2,000 sites have unearthed a wealth of artifacts. But until the civilization\u2019s script can be read, its language, culture and religion, as well as the history of its rise and fall, will remain shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The prize, announced by M.K. Stalin, the chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is intended to renew efforts to decipher the script. The push, however, is not merely about historical scholarship. It is the latest front in a cultural war over India\u2019s ancient past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The country\u2019s ascendant Hindu nationalists argue that the Aryan race, which brought the Vedic religion of Hinduism to India, represents the original Indian people. The claim is central to the concept of Hindutva, the ideology of Hindu supremacy promoted by the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Stalin\u2019s party, and many others, hold a different view. They say that the Dravidians of southern India are the country\u2019s indigenous people, and that the Aryans of northern India were invaders from Europe. (In reality, the distinction between Aryans and Dravidians is itself not clear-cut.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Deciphering the script, the debate\u2019s partisans believe, could help settle the question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Hindu nationalists\u2019 conception of the past, the Indus script most likely has links to Sanskrit, a classical language of India and the one in which the Hindu scriptures were written.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the minds of Mr. Stalin and others, the script most likely has Tamil roots. (Tamil, a Dravidian language, is another classical language of India.) That, in turn, would cement the Dravidian claim to being the original inhabitants of India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is not for a lack of trying that the script has remained undeciphered. Archaeologists, technology experts and linguists the world over have been endeavoring to unlock the script for years, Mr. Stalin said while <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNUxfqd58sc\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announcing<\/a> the $1 million prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asko Parpola, a Finnish Indologist who has studied the Indus script since 1964, said that deciphering it could put the Indus Valley civilization in the realm of history rather than prehistory, giving new perspective to India\u2019s cultural evolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But a politically motivated effort, he warned, could decide the results in advance and try to find evidence to justify them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Indus Valley civilization, also called the Harappan civilization, is seen by experts as on a par with the better-known ones of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the earliest, it flourished on the banks of the Indus and Saraswati Rivers during the Bronze Age. It had planned townships, water management and drainage systems, huge fortified walls and exquisite pottery and terra cotta artistry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the Archaeological Survey of India announced the first findings on the civilization in 1924, around 5,000 inscriptions have been excavated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They are engraved in stone or metal, or stamped onto fired clay. The brevity of the inscriptions, along with the absence of a Rosetta Stone-like text showing its symbols in translation, are among the reasons the script has not been deciphered, scholars say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Parpola postulates that the signs found on the clay tablets were pictures that should be read as complete words. They could also be read phonetically, for homophones, he argues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He believes that his research offers proof of the script\u2019s Dravidian roots. The fish signs found in many inscriptions, he theorizes, were pictograms that could also mean \u201cstar\u201d \u2014 the Dravidian word for fish, \u201cmeen,\u201d was a homophone for star.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, a researcher who has tried to decipher the script for 10 years, differs with Mr. Parpola on the fish hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She argues that the fish signs were used to signify categories of shiny commodities like gemstones and polished copper and bronze items. Calling the Indus script a \u201cmercantile script,\u201d Ms. Mukhopadhyay said that examples in which fish signs were used consecutively represented the names of related commodities, and that the excavated clay tablets were tax stamps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The script is meant to be read as symbols, not phonetically, Ms. Mukhopadhyay said. \u201cTo show ivory, for example, they simply used a tusk-like sign,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Parpola, who is working on the sixth volume of \u201cCorpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions,\u201d a database of all available material culture on the Indus civilization, said he had received a lot of mail over the years from enthusiasts and researchers claiming to have cracked the script or found new inscriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Aziz Kingrani, an academic in Pakistan, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingraniAziz\/status\/1696465757721518574\/photo\/1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shared on social media<\/a> one such bit of correspondence. Mr. Parpola congratulated Mr. Kingrani on a book he had written, but expressed regret that his findings had not substantially advanced the deciphering of the script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPlease do keep on searching,\u201d Mr. Parpola wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/01\/world\/asia\/india-indus-script-prize.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a riddle that has confounded scholars for over a century. 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