Written words probably developed independently at least in three places: Egypt, Mesopotamia and Harappa. In these densely populated areas, signs, icons and symbols were eventually used to create a writing system. It is interesting to see how sometimes remote populations are using the same icons and symbols. Here, we discuss examples and some results obtained by researchers investigating the signs of Harappan civilization.Cogprints.org, ID Code: 6179. http://cogprints.org/6179
The undeciphered script of the Indus Civilisation has been an enigma from the first publication of a...
The paper presents an exceptional artefact of the Halil Rud or Marhashi Civilization, a stone plaque...
A familiar story about the evolution of alphabets is that individual letters originated in iconic re...
Written words probably developed independently at least in three places: Egypt, Mesopotamia and Hara...
<p>Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of...
Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of th...
<p>Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language...
222 of the excavated potsherds have graffito-marks from simple strokes to intricate geometric and na...
Thousands of small stone seals of around 2500 BCE with enigmatic script and more than 400 pictograph...
Group 1) Goat, deer, highly-conventionalized human forms on a sherd are almost similar to the pictog...
This paper presents an analysis and interpretation of the so-called Harappan chimaera, one of the mo...
Writing – of any type – is a highly complex system of visual communication, but it is by no means th...
This piece is a short teaser for a longer forthcoming contribution that has as its focus the develop...
est, named Cuneiform, originated in the Sumer region of southeastern Mesopotamia, in what is now sou...
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier...
The undeciphered script of the Indus Civilisation has been an enigma from the first publication of a...
The paper presents an exceptional artefact of the Halil Rud or Marhashi Civilization, a stone plaque...
A familiar story about the evolution of alphabets is that individual letters originated in iconic re...
Written words probably developed independently at least in three places: Egypt, Mesopotamia and Hara...
<p>Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of...
Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of th...
<p>Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language...
222 of the excavated potsherds have graffito-marks from simple strokes to intricate geometric and na...
Thousands of small stone seals of around 2500 BCE with enigmatic script and more than 400 pictograph...
Group 1) Goat, deer, highly-conventionalized human forms on a sherd are almost similar to the pictog...
This paper presents an analysis and interpretation of the so-called Harappan chimaera, one of the mo...
Writing – of any type – is a highly complex system of visual communication, but it is by no means th...
This piece is a short teaser for a longer forthcoming contribution that has as its focus the develop...
est, named Cuneiform, originated in the Sumer region of southeastern Mesopotamia, in what is now sou...
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier...
The undeciphered script of the Indus Civilisation has been an enigma from the first publication of a...
The paper presents an exceptional artefact of the Halil Rud or Marhashi Civilization, a stone plaque...
A familiar story about the evolution of alphabets is that individual letters originated in iconic re...