The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s4.1

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From the very beginning, the pictographic Indus script has been the most tantalizing one among the many problems presented by the Harappan culture. Slightly more than 3500 short inscriptions hold an answer to the most debated question concerning this early urban culture, that concerning its language. Many attempts at deciphering this unknown writing system have been made ever since the first specimen was published in 1875, and all sorts of 'solutions' have been proposed.