Their results offered a slightly different and much more detailed picture of ancient life than that of previous experts. Rather than a “single megadrought that lasted about 100–200 years ...

A $1 Million Reward Awaits Anyone Who Can Crack the Ancient Indus Script. The script has remained undeciphered for more than a century. ... Photo by DEA/G. Nimatallah/De Agostini via Getty Images.

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?

The Indus civilization developed 5,600 years ago and, at its peak, is believed to have held 10% of the world's population in the culture that expanded over 386,000 square miles, more extensive ...

A local government in India has offered a top prize of $1 million to the first person who can crack the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of the Indus Valley civilization known as Harappan.

The Indus Valley civilization, equal in power to Mesopotamia and Egypt, reigned between about 2500 B.C. and 1700 B.C. in what is now mainly Pakistan on the Indian subcontinent.

Fine Art Images/Heritage Images, via Getty Images. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi. ... $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization.

Speaking to Frontline in 2002, Indian civil servant and the country’s leading expert on the ancient Indus script, Iravatham Mahadevan, acknowledged that the sonar photos revealed structures that ...

The ancient world harbors many mysteries, one of which is a writing system that emerged from the heart of the Indus Valley Civilization.Flourishing over 4,000 years ago, this civilization left ...

To be sure, several ancient scripts remain undeciphered, facing challenges similar to the Indus script. Mr Rao cites scripts like Proto-Elamite (Iran), Linear A (Crete), and Etruscan (Italy ...

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?