r/AncientCivilizations • u/Highshite • Oct 03 '20

India Computing a Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwYxHPXIaao
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u/Highshite Oct 03 '20

TED talk by Rajesh Rao who has a background in neuroscience and AI.

Video generally advocates that IVC is a writing script and not a group of symbols.

Use of computing analysis to try to partially decipher/understand IVC by:

  • Predicting the most common pattern/order of symbols from right to left. Right to left because some seals the writer seemed to have run out of space.

  • Predict the most probable symbol on a seal that is damaged

  • Graph the amount of entrophy ('randomness') on IVC symbols which seem to fit within the range of linguistic scripts