CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -We could find Harappan scripts on seals, pottery etc. during excavations but unfortunately they have not been deciphered yet. Q. Which of the following is not a feature of Harappan scripts?
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: -The Harappan script has 400 to 500 signs and it is generally agreed that it is not an alphabetic form of writing but pictographic.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1987, Assyriologist James Kinnier Wilson at the University of Cambridge, UK, published an ‘Indo-Sumerian’ decipherment, based on a comparison of the Indus signs with similar-looking ones in cuneiform accounting tablets from Mesopotamia.