It can earn you a decoding of the old text of the Valley of the Sind

It is a puzzle that confuses scientists for more than a century. Now holds a handsome cash prize: a million dollars for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Wadi Al -Sindh civilization.

Little is relatively little than the creators in the scenario, who have built a sprawling urban system for about 5,000 years across what India, Pakistan and modern Afghanistan are.

Excavations were discovered in more than 2000 wealth locations of artifacts. But so that the text of civilization can be read, because its language, culture and religion, as well as the date of its ascension and its fall, will remain as a list of mystery.

The award, announced by MK Stalin, Prime Minister of Tamil Nadu State, aims to renew efforts to decode. The batch, however, is not only related to historical scholarships. It is the latest front in a cultural war on the old past of India.

The Hindu nationalists argue over the country that the Aryan race, which brought the Vedic religion of Hinduism to India, represents the original Indian people. The claim is essential to the concept of Hindutva, the ideology of the Hindu superiority promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mr. Stalin’s party, and many others, holds a different view. They say that Darvidians in southern India are the indigenous people in the country, and that the Aryan in northern India was invading from Europe. (In fact, the distinction between the Aryan and Davidian is the same unclear.)

The decoding of the scenario, as supporters of the discussion, can help settle the question.

In the concept of Hindu nationalists of the past, the Indus text is likely to have links to Sanskrit, a classic language of India and the book in which Hindu books were written.

In the minds of Mr. Stalin and others, the scenario is likely to have the roots of Tamil. (Tamil, the language of Davidian, is another classic language for India.), Which in turn will reinforce Davidian’s claim that they are the indigenous population in India.

It is not because of the lack of trying to remain the text program is not charged. Mr. Stalin said that archaeologists, technology and linguists around the world were seeking to open the text for years. Advertisement A million dollar prize.

Asko Parpola, the Finnish Indonesian scientist who has studied Indus since 1964, said that deciphering it could put the civilization of the Sindh Valley in the world of history instead of prehistoric, while giving a new perspective of the cultural development of India.

But the politically motivated effort, and warned of that, can decide the results in advance and try to find evidence to justify them.

Experts look at the civilization of the Endos Valley, which is also called the Haraaban civilization, on an equal footing with the well -known civilization in Egypt, between Mesopotamia and China.

One of the oldest, flourished on the banks of the Indus and Saraswati rivers during the Bronze Age. She had planned towns, water management, huge fortified walls, great pottery and Terra Kouta.

Since the archaeological survey of India announced the first results on civilization in 1924, about 5,000 inscriptions have been dug.

It is engraved in stone or metal, or sealed on absolute clay. Scientists say that the briefing of the inscriptions, as well as the lack of a text similar to the stone of Rosetta, which shows its symbols in translation, is among the reasons that the scenario has not been deciphered.

Mr. Barbola assumes that the signs on the clay tablets were pictures that must be read as complete words. It can also be read audio, for homovon, as it argues.

He believes that his research provides evidence of the roots of the Drafidian of the text. The signs of fish in many inscriptions, theoretically, were an illustrative depiction that could also mean “Star” – the word Dravidian for Fish, “Meen”, Humovon was the star.

Pahata Ansomali Makhbadehi, a researcher who tried to decipher the scenario for 10 years, differs with Mr. Barula on the premise of fish.

It says that the signs of fish were used to denote the categories of glossy goods such as gemstones, copper and polished bronze elements. “Mrs. Mokhbadaiai represents that examples of fish signs were used, respectively, the names of relevant commodities, and that engraved clay tablets were tax stamps.

Ms. Muktopdiahi said the text program is supposed to read as symbols, not an audio. “To show ivory, for example, they simply used a tusk -like sign,” she said.

Mr. Barbola, who works on the sixth volume of the “seals and inscriptions group”, said a database for all the culture of materials available in the civilization of the bond, he received a lot of mail over the years of enthusiasts and researchers claiming that the scenario has cracking or finding new inscriptions.

Aziz Kinsani, Academy in Pakistan, Common on social media One part of the correspondence. Mr. Barlaola congratulated Mr. Kengrani on his book, but he expressed his regret that the results he reached did not developed significantly deciphering the scenario.

“Please continue to search,” Mr. Barula wrote.