Cracking the Indus code
Unexplainable
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How to Guess the Meaning of Ancient Dravidian Words
Researchers have used this kind of guesswork to show that some of these seals might actually be names. Rajesh: This is kind of a roundabout way to decipher things like this. And it's far from certain, but if this seal and others like it really are names, it could be huge. Once you know a name, you can look for it in other texts, just like researchers did with the Rosetta Stone.
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