In a tour-de-force of interpretation, Iravatham Mahadevan attempts to interpret two of the most common ancient Indus signs using parallels from old Tamil. >

Iravatham Mahadevan explores a set of ancient Indus signs that he believes are related to agriculture using comparisons to signs in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. >

A proposed Indus sign reading of Muruku on a stone axe found in South India. >

The resemblance between an inscribed terracotta dish from approximately 100 BCE and a three-sided tablet found in Harappa. >

A statistical analysis by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Team. >

The first of a continuing series of articles by scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) undertaking a scientific analysis of Indus sign patterns. >

A remarkable bilingual clue to the Indus script is examined. >

Iravatham Mahadevan considers this late 2011 paper to be "one of the most important papers I have written." >

Building on previous statistical approaches, the application of tools like n-gram Markov chains to analyze the syntax of the Indus script and form the basis for the development of a stochastic grammar to explore the syntax of the Indus script in greater detail. >

An important new paper by one of the foremost figures in Indus script research who takes a popular four sign sequence and offers an interpretation. >