India offers $ 1 million reward for those who decipher old message

The pieces contain signs, symbols, animal designs and writing with about 4,000 short inscriptions. Most are recorded on small objects such as stamps and ceramic.

67 Signs found correspond to 80% of object writing. The data were confirmed by researcher Nisha Yadav of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) from Mumbai, India, who used computer science to analyze the un deciplished writing. According to her, a jar with two straps is the most widely used signal.

We still don’t know if the signs are complete words, or part of words or part of sentences. Our understanding is that the script is structured and there is an underlying logic in writing Nisha Yadav, BBC