# A Rosetta Stone for a lost language

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2011
- Speaker: Rajesh Rao
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, History, Languages and linguistics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/rajesh_rao_a_rosetta_stone_for_a_lost_language)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [A Rosetta Stone for a lost language](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/rajesh_rao_a_rosetta_stone_for_a_lost_language/2ac7f5f2f967), 17 min (TED's player)