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WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Its written language has not yet been deciphered.
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There are few artifacts from the Indus Valley.
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It existed for only a few hundred years.
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It existed in a part of the world that has been largely ignored.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fewer inscriptions are found on clay tablets, pottery and metal objects. With an average of just 4 or 5 signs, the brevity of most inscriptions poses a challenge for decipherment efforts. It’s also among the reasons that some scholars argue these characters are not true writing.
Detailed explanation-2: -So far, the Indus writing system could not be translated because the texts are too short, we have no bilingual inscription and we do not which language or languages were transcribed. Moreover, it is possible that it worked differently from any other writing system of the same general period.
Detailed explanation-3: -Scholars of history and archaeology have been asking this question ever since the Bronze Age civilization was discovered back in the mid-19th century. The Indus Valley script is yet to be deciphered.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indus Script is the writing system developed by the Indus Valley Civilization and it is the earliest form of writing known in the Indian subcontinent.