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$1 Million Prize Offered To Whoever Deciphers This 5,000-Year-Old Script
A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press1d
Near Chattanooga, a tiny (and monumental) glimpse into the origins of the written alphabet
From an animal's tusk, it was worked into a small personal hygiene tool, inscribed with a modest wish, and eventually, ...
BBC on MSN10d
A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script. Theories have ...