Indus Valley seals may not be proof of advanced linguistic skills.

Asian News International | April 30, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: ANI

Hong Kong, April 30 (ANI): A team of scientists has refuted claims made by a research group that the puzzling symbols that were found on Indus Valley seals are proof of a written script of a language from an ancient civilization, and therefore a literate culture.

According to a report in Asia Times Online, the claims have been challenged by historian Steve Farmer and Harvard University Indologist Michael Witzel.

On April 23, the US-based Science journal published a paper by an Indian and Indian-American team of scientists and ...

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