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by msravi 481 days ago
Related; A cryptanalytic decipherment of the Indus Script

https://www.academia.edu/78867798/A_cryptanalytic_decipherme...
2 comments
acheron 480 days ago
To be clear to others, that guy is a crank. There is no accepted decipherment of Indus Valley writing.
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empath75 480 days ago
To be even more clear, it's Hindu nationalist propaganda, and not a serious academic paper, and there's a reason it was never published in a reputable journal.
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mcswell 481 days ago
Many have claimed to have deciphered those symbols, but it's not even clear that it is a script, in the sense of a way to write a language.
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msravi 480 days ago
Did you read the paper?

Technical presentation by author at IIT, Hyderabad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG7QKoxILwk

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bradrn 480 days ago
A bit of searching turned up this, on a discussion between the author of that paper and a critic: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/1iekde1/fina...
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