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Ancient Indus questions answered by Mayank Vahia, an astronomer and Indus script expert at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has numerous articles on this website, and the essay TIFR Indus Script Research.

75. Where does the interpretive controversy with Farmer on the Indus script stand today?

Asko Parpola
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia

Answered by Massimo Vidale, Asko Parpola and Mayank Vahia.

76. Is there any relation between Vedic and Indus Civilization as many Indus and Saraswati sites have been found in the region which is called Saptasindhu in Vedas?

Mayank Vahia

Answered by Mayank Vahia.

77. Was the diet of the Indus valley inhabitants vegetarian or non-vegetarian?

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia

Did the Indus valley civilization people cultivate paddy or wheat? Was their diet vegan or vegetarian? 3 scholars reply.

89. What is the relevance of Harappan civilization in today's world?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Nisha Yadav
Paolo Biagi
Rita P. Wright

Answered by Massimo Vidale, Mayank Vahia, Gwen Robbins Schug, Nisha Yadav, Paolo Biagi and Rita P. Wright

52. When did the Indus Valley Civilization start?

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Mayank Vahia
Nisha Yadav
Paolo Biagi

Answer to question 52. from our panel of leading ancient Indus archaeologists.

60. Who gave the same name "Mound of Dead" (Lothal & Mohenjo-daro) in different languages to these two places?

Dennys Frenez
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia

Another answer to a question from you to our panel of leading Indus archaeologists.

61. Is there any research going on in analysing DNA of human remains to identify their origins? If not why not?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Paolo Biagi

Another answer to a question from you by our panel of leading ancient Indus archaeologists.

62. How old is the oldest ancient Indus writing?

Asko Parpola
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Nisha Yadav

Another question answered by expert ancient Indus scholars.

63. Is there any evidence of trade with Egypt and Minoan Crete?

Dennys Frenez
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Randall Law

Another question from site visitors answered by a panel of ancient Indus experts.

68. If Harappan civilisation spoke a Dravidian language, how old is this 'spoken' language?

Asko Parpola
Mayank Vahia
Shereen Ratnagar

Another answer from our panel of ancient Indus experts to a question posed by site visitors.

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