Name: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
Uploaded: 2011-06-28T00:00:00Z
Duration: 16 min 44 s
Description: Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": how to decipher the 4000-year-old Indus script. He's enlisting modern computation to try to read this lost language, the key to understanding this ancient civilization.

Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": how to decipher the 4000-year-old Indus script. He's enlisting modern computation to try to read this lost language, the key to understanding this ancient civilization.

Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language

A Rosetta Stone for a lost language

Deciphering the Indus script, a 4,000-year-old puzzle, could unveil the language and insights of an ancient civilization.

Investigations hint at the Indus script encoding multiple languages, a breakthrough in understanding ancient trade dynamics.

Deciphering the Indus script may unlock secrets of a civilization that possibly used the same script for multiple languages.