LAHORE:
Indus Valley script is the most daunting and intriguing deciphering assignment for archaeologists and codebreakers worldwide. The lost language of the Indus Civilization, which goes back 4000 years, may remain incomprehensible forever, simply because there’s not enough material for deciphers to work on or because the languages they record aren’t related to any known now.
Excavators discovered the first signs of a script in the 1870s. It turned up on small seal stones, amulets and fragments of pottery. The seal stones are believed to have been used for stamping the clay tokens that sealed bales of goods. Above a short script, they generally have a realistic carving of an animal, for example, a bull, a rhinoceros, or an elephant. It consists of signs depicting human beings, animals, plants, and other natural phenomena like mountains and manufactured tools. Unfortunately, these about 400 different signs are not drawn as carefully and in great detail as other Egyptian hieroglyphs. This means that the exact pictorial meaning of many signs is not yet clear to archaeologists and other codebreakers.
