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Cracking the Indus code

Unexplainable

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The Indus Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. People already knew how to read the Greek script, and so they were able to relate parts of the hieroglyphic and demotic scripts to the Greek script. But with the Indus Valley, we don't have this advantage. We don't know any proper names.

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