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Re:Scientists peek into the kitchen of the Bronze Age Indus ... by Tagbert on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:59PM (#30951343)
the other problem with the Indus script is that there are not a lot of examples and most are very short. More like names than full statements.
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Re:Scientists peek into the kitchen of the Bronze Age Indus ... by ncmncm on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:50PM (#30953153)
So even if you could translate it perfectly, there would be nothing to read.

They might have had a massive literature, but written on something that is all dust now. There was an Asian tradition of scratching letters in palm leaves stitched together.

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