{"id":8101,"date":"2009-08-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/08\/indus-script-may-be-closer-to-revealing-its-secrets\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T12:00:00","slug":"indus-script-may-be-closer-to-revealing-its-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/08\/indus-script-may-be-closer-to-revealing-its-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Indus Script May Be Closer to Revealing Its Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/Print.aspx?Id=d8a839f4-3040-431c-aff2-c86f03d43aa6\">www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 6, 2009: Indian and American researchers say they are close to breaking the code behind the script of the Indus Valley civilization, which flourished on the India-Pakistan border 4,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The script, found as inscriptions on numerous objects dating from that period, has puzzled archaeologists ever since Harappa was discovered in 1842.<\/p>\n<p>A study, a joint effort of Mumbai&#8217;s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Chennai&#8217;s Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the University of Washington, was published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>While many scholars speculate that the language resembles Sanskrit or an early Dravidian dialect, Rajesh Rao, associate professor of computer science, University of Washington, said calculations with the help of computers and mathematical models had shown that the order of the symbols on the artifacts suggested a distinct language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 6, 2009: Indian and American researchers say they are close to breaking the code,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}