August Tudor

A Universal Framework for Forensic Decipherment and Structural Analysis of the Indus Valley Script

The Indus Valley Script (IVS), preserved on more than 5,600 inscriptions from the Mature Harappan period (c. 2600–1900 BCE), has long resisted decipherment due to the low unicity distance inherent in its inscription strings that average only 4.6 signs. This study presents the Cas...