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Officials Are Offering $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decode This Ancient Script

More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River in present-day northwest India and ...
Artnet

A $1 Million Reward Awaits Anyone Who Can Crack the Ancient Indus Script

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and Pakistan, ...
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India Announces $1 Million Reward for Deciphering the 5,000-Year-Old Indus Script

The government of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the Indus script, one of the greatest unsolved linguistic mysteries of the ...
CNN

No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...
The New York Times

Want a Million Dollars? Get Busy Deciphering This Ancient Script.

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi It is a riddle that has ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Officials Are Offering $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decode This Ancient Script

Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along ...