Arts and Humanities
3 years ago

Deciphering the Indus script reveals ancient secrets of Dravidian civilization.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Asko Parpola and others: Decipherment of the Proto-Dravidian inscriptions of the Indus civilization: a first announcement.—Progress in the decipherment of the Proto-Dravidian Indus script.—Further progress in the Indus script decipherment. [All three by] <i>Asko Parpola, Seppo Koskenniemi, Simo Parpola and Pentti Aalto</i>. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Special Publications, Nos. 1–3.) 72 pp.; 47 pp.; [i], 46 pp. Copenhagen: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, 1969, 1969,1970.
J. R. Marr

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