How can cuneiform – the ancient writing system used in Mesopotamia during the height of the Indus civilization – help us better understand the Indus writing system? >
"We drove eastward for another half mile into the Shadi Kaur Valley. There the trail just disappeared. After winding througha mosaic of sand hills, we came to the service road connecting Pasni with a new water-pumping station. But the station marked the end of that road too, so we drove cross-count… >
During the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, the Harappan Civilization covered an area of over one million square kilometers in South Asia, from the Afghan highlands to western India. Excavations at large urban sites like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, and Dholavira, as well as at smaller production si… >
Father tongue, mother land: The Birth of Languages in South Asia is a natural successor to Wanders, Kings, Merchants, taking on perhaps the biggest puzzle in Indian language history: what di… >
Things were never simple in Indus times. This excellent paper neatly summarizes what we know about ancient Indus agricultural strategies in the face of diverse local conditions and possibly radical climate changes about 4,000 years ago. >
One day Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be of great help in reading ancient Indus inscriptions. There are likely to be many steps before we get there however. >
