Of the four most ancient civilizations of the Old World only the
South Asian or Harappan civilization's writing has not been
deciphered. Ever since the discovery of that civilization in the
early part of the 20th century, almost innumerable efforts have
been made by scholar and amateur alike to solve the puzzle of the
ancient writing. The author, building on the most enlightened of
these efforts and on his intimate experience in the archaeology of
the Indus River region has created a methodology which makes
possible a major breakthrough for the decipherment of the Harappan
writing.
The book describes in detail what this methodology is and applies
it to the writing. Over 4,000 inscriptions were studied from which
a compilation of these signs used in the script writing,
identification of each of the 419 signs involved, and their
probable representation of words and sounds in the Harappan
language, was made possible.
The book furnishes a model which can be tested. Sign identification
lists, possible translations and a beginning of a grammar are
included. The motifs associated with the writing are also studied
and that relationship analyzed. The consequence of this
understanding of the writing and the motif coupled with the already
known archaeological evidence is the restoration of ancient life as
it was lived in the Western part of the Indian Subcontinent in the
3rd Millennium B.C. While not a claim for decipherment, the model
may yet be the most advanced step for decipherment yet taken.
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