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One Sees What One Wants To

http://www.flonnet.com/fl1723/17231250.htm

From Frontline, Asko Parpola answering the alleged decipherment by N.S. Rajaram.

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Murukan in the Indus Script

http://murugan.org/research/mahadevan.htm

Article by Iravatham Mahadevan about the pan-Indian god Skanda or Murugan and his occurrence in the Indus Valley script.

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Indus Graffiti as Rock Art and their Astronomical Implications

http://murugan.org/research/valluvan.htm

The Kanaga sign is very common in Indus rock art. It can be interpreted as the symbol for a primordial god and a Lord of space and time with an astronomical meaning.

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Horseplay in Harappa

http://www.flonnet.com/fl1720/17200040.htm

From Frontline, Witzel and Farmer report on media hype, faked data, and Hindutva propaganda in recent claims that the Indus Valley Script has been decoded.

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Earliest Writing Found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm

From the BBC, earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa Project.

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Ancient Indus Valley Script

http://www.harappa.com/script/

Harappa presents interviews with the three leading scholars of the undeciphered ancient Indus Valley script, papers in pdf format, a dictionary, audio, and resources.

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