Sujay Rao Mandavilli. In 1932, Indus script decipherment was first proposed by the famous Egyptologist of his time, Flinders Petrie. By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor. It was the symbol of the deity. The texts give innumerable information on the world view of the Indus empire's state leaders, on the social life, religion, international conflicts, warfare, economy, linguistics etc. It was found that the Harappan pattern resembled spoken words, thus supporting the theory that the symbols indeed stood for a yet to be deciphered language. The Indus 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. Yeah, there is much left which is still unearthed, Your email address will not be published. Lot of research done… Congratulations, It seems there is so much to be revealed of Indus Civilization, Thanks The Indus Valley civilization (sometimes called the Harappan civilization) flourished in what is now Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Iran around 4,000 years ago and declined during a period of ancient climate change. Scholars, and researchers found many shreds of evidence such as potteries with signs and symbols and stamps about the culture since the 1930s. Indus people worshipped.   |  A+A A-, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo | PTI), NEW DELHI:  A day after her budget speech where she said Harappan  script had been deciphered made her a target of Twitteratis, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in an interaction with journalists on Sunday, again reiterated that “deciphering has happened.”. A United News of India dispatch on July 11, 1999, picked up throughout South Asia, reported on new research by "noted histo rian, N.S. It will be interesting to know the history, heritage and the deciphering attempts for the Indus or Harappan script. And it could explain why a Dravidian language can be found today… The Indus script (also known as the Harappan script ) is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilization during the Kot Diji and Mature Harappan periods between 3500 and 1900 BCE. 68. The Indus script is made up of partially pictographic signs and human and animal motifs including a puzzling 'unicorn'. In spite of many attempts, the 'script' has not yet been deciphered, but efforts are ongoing. Required fields are marked *. From the last hundreds of years, archaeologists are working on translating and deciphering the Indus or Harappan script. Asko Parpola In my opinion the Harappan language has been deciphered, and it was an early member of the Dravidian language family. They were used together with the units for weighing purpose. The writing system used by the people of the Indus Valley civilization is undeciphered, but makes use of a series of signs. It was the symbol of the deity. Try to avoid outside hyperlinks inside the comment. Follow us for updates, CBI books Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research for illegal data harvesting, Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava named joint winner of Michael and Sheila Held Prize, Surprise, surprise! Old World Civilizations Comparative Timeline Early Harappan-Ravi Phase 3300-2800 BC Trade networks linked this culture/ language and religion, which continue to be major issues. All the comments will be moderated by the newindianexpress.com editorial. The symbol of moon denotes night or night travelling. Search form. For the first time, Iravatham Mahadevan, the Padma Shri awardee scholar, in his groundbreaking research, “Texts, Concordance and Tables” in 1977, had compiled all signs and symbols of the Indus script along with their statistical analysis. The Indus or Harappan script of the Indus valley civilization is one of the riddles yet to be solved. Research has shown that these signs and seals are prominently related to the trade between the Indus people and the Akkadian Empire. The Indo-Aryan languages were spoken in the Indus community of the Indus civilization since at least 1000 BC and earlier. “In my opinion, the Harappan language belonged to the Dravidian family (which is today represented by Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and some 20 … The Indus language is likely to have belonged to the North Dravidian sub-branch represented today by the Brahui, spoken in the mountain valleys and plateaus of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, the core area of the Early Harappan neolithic cultures, and by the Kurukh spoken in North India from Nepal and Madhya Pradesh to Orissa, Bengal and Assam. Archaeologists are working on translating and deciphering the Indus Valley civilization is undeciphered, but makes use of a of... 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