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A Rosetta Stone for a lost language

Rajesh Rao · TED

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Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": how to decipher the 4000-year-old Indus script. He's enlisting modern computation to try to read this lost language, the key to understanding this ancient civilization.

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Institution
TED
Department
TED2011
Speaker
Rajesh Rao
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, History, Languages and linguistics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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