A young IT professional from Bengal, Bahata Angshumali Mukhopadhyay, who was intrigued with the idea of unravelling Indus inscription, has succeeded in lifting the veil off the valley’s long kept secret. Reports suggest this discovery was a result of the interdisciplinary manner in which the symbols were classified.
Crux of the Matter
The Indus Valley Civilization consisted of two large administrative cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, and more than 100 towns and villages. The act of deciphering ancient Indus inscriptions has a very long list of failed attempts, with thousands of scholars’ names in it.
Bahata’s research paper published in Palgrave Communications, a Nature group journal, says most of the Indus Valley inscriptions recovered so far were written using word signs and not with the widely accepted belief, units of speech sounds called phonograms.
This finding can be compared to the structured messages observed on ‘stamps, coupons, tokens and currency coins of modern times.’
Even with a fair share of critics, the researcher boldly presented her research, confident that her work will make the entire process of decoding Indus inscriptions simpler and easier.
Curiopedia
The Indus Valley Civilization, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. The civilisation’s cities were noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, clusters of large non-residential buildings, and new techniques in handicraft (carnelian products, seal carving) and metallurgy (copper, bronze, lead, and tin).[4] The large cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa very likely grew to contain between 30,000 and 60,000 individuals and the civilisation itself during its fluorescence may have contained between one and five million individuals. More Info
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