A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in ... it mostly appears on stone seals used for trade or commerce.

Mr. Parpola, who is working on the sixth volume of “Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions ... a new study finds. Ancient Indus Valley Script: A $1 million prize offered by an Indian state ...

The Indus civilisation had flourished for centuries and built one of the world's first urban societies, but the cause of its downfall, as well as the secrets hidden in the written material it left ...

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Scholars have tried innumerable times to decipher the meaning of this ancient writing ... fragmented. The script occurs on some 4,000 known inscriptions, mostly on small seals.

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers ... bronzes, and stamp seals. But, alas, no Rosetta Stone-like text has surfaced to aid their decipherment.

An ancient script made up of signs and symbols ... found on a variety of objects like pottery, tablets, and stone seals. Each script has an average of five signs or symbols with no long texts.

To encourage the decipherment of the ancient Indus script, the government of Tamil ... The typical layout includes signs running across the top of a seal with an animal figure underneath.

The significant reward seems to be a reflection of the intrigue surrounding this ancient society ... Part of the difficulty in deciphering the script is that most of the symbols are found on small ...