Both scripts use conjuncts where signs are combined to represent compound vowels ... The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India. The ancient [Indus] writing . . . may have ...
Such groups of mounds abound in the plains of the Indus ... the evolution of this script than those from Harappa; thirdly, that they bear no resemblance whatever to any ancient Indian alphabet ...
Second, the discovery added one more ancient civilisation in Asia ... Iravatham Mahadevan, who battled for 50 years to decipher the Indus script, had asserted that the civilisation was both ...