Immortal India with Amish

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EP : 24 Indus Valley Script CRACKED AFTER 4000 Years...HOW?

EP : 24 Indus Valley Script CRACKED AFTER 4000 Years...HOW?23 May31 min

<p>What if the 4,000-year-old Indus Valley Script — one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of ancient history — has finally been decoded?</p><p>For more than 100 years, archaeologists, historians, linguists and scholars have tried to understand the mysterious symbols found on seals from the Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the Harappan or Indus-Saraswati Civilisation. But no one could clearly read what was written on them.</p><p>In this episode, Amish explores the extraordinary claim made by Dr Bharath Rao, an Indian computer scientist and cryptographer, who says he has decoded the Indus Script using cryptography, Sanskrit grammar, pattern recognition, and information theory.</p><p>Could the ancient Indus Valley language be connected to Sanskrit?</p><p>Could the famous Pashupati Seal be an early representation of Shiva?</p><p>Could the Indus Script and Brahmi script show continuity in ancient Indian writing?</p><p>And if this theory is correct, what does it mean for Indian history, the Vedas, the Saraswati River, and the Aryan Invasion / Aryan Migration debate?</p><p>This episode looks at the evidence, the method, the criticism, and the larger civilisational question behind one of India’s oldest mysteries.</p><p>Watch till the end for the possible translation of the Pashupati Seal.</p><p>Chapters</p><p>00:00 – The 4,000-Year-Old Seal Nobody Could Read</p><p>00:42 – Why The Indus Valley Script Is History’s Biggest Puzzle</p><p>01:42 – The Indian Computer Scientist Who Took On The Mystery</p><p>02:13 – How Ancient Scripts Have Been Cracked Before</p><p>03:17 – How Cryptography Can Decode A Dead Script</p><p>03:52 – Claude Shannon, Information Theory &amp; Unicity Distance</p><p>04:57 – How Dr Bharath Rao Tried To Decode The Indus Script</p><p>05:47 – The Astronomy Clue: Dhruv, Thuban &amp; The Pole Star</p><p>08:02 – The Pashupati Seal And The Shiva Connection</p><p>11:27 – Was Shiva Worshipped In The Indus Valley Civilisation?</p><p>12:08 – Did Indian Writing Continue From Indus To Brahmi?</p><p>13:47 – What This Could Mean For Ancient Indian History</p><p>15:21 – The Biggest Objections To This Theory</p><p>18:24 – The Evidence: Sanskrit, Astronomy, Pashupati Seal &amp; Saraswati</p><p>19:12 – Aryan Invasion, Aryan Migration &amp; The Indus Debate</p><p>21:01 – The Timeline Problem In Vedic Literature</p><p>28:51 – Why Did The “Aryans” Never Mention A Foreign Homeland?</p><p>30:28 – The Script That Waited 4,000 Years To Be Read</p><p>31:23 – What Was Written On The Pashupati Seal?</p><p><br></p><p>[Indus Valley Script, Indus Script decoded, 4000-year-old language, Dr Bharath Rao, Indian computer scientist, Pashupati Seal, Shiva in Indus Valley, Indus Valley Civilisation, Harappan Civilisation, Indus Saraswati Civilisation, Sanskrit, Brahmi script, Saraswati River, Aryan Invasion Theory, Aryan Migration Theory, ancient Indian history, Amish Tripathi] </p><p><br></p>