Another school of thought proposes the script is related to Tamil. Tamil is the classical ... it would vastly change our understanding of the ancient civilizations of the Indian subcontinent.

To encourage the decipherment of the ancient Indus script, the government of Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, announced a massive cash prize for anyone—scholar or amateur—who can crack ...

As the first light breaks over the subcontinent, it paints two distant shores—the ancient ghats of Kashi and the temple-lined coast of Tamil Nadu—in the same golden hue. In this liminal moment ...