READ: The mystery of the Indus script: Dravidian, Sanskrit or not a language at all? (indianexpress.com)

Though after more the 100 years that Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) was first discovered in the 1920s by a team of British archaeologists led by Sir John Marshall, the script is yet to be deciphered. A recent research paper published by a Bangalore-based software engineer contends that the Indus script was mainly written with signs that could symbolically convey meanings to people of different dialects, and languages, across Indus settlements.

A recent research paper published by a Bangalore-based software engineer, Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, contends that the Indus script was mainly written with signs that could symbolically convey meanings to people of different dialects, and languages, across Indus settlements; each Indus sign represented a specific meaning, and the script was used mainly for commercial purposes.

INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION(IVC) /HARRAPAN CULTURE/BRONZE AGE

1. Civilization first discovered in Harrapa (1921 Western province of Pakistan). Sir John Marshall gave it name IVC. The Indus River Valley Civilization, 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India. Important innovations of this civilization include standardized weights and measures, seal carving, and metallurgy with copper, bronze, lead, and tin.        
2. The Indus cities are noted for their urban planning, a technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment. They are also noted for their baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, and clusters of large, non residential buildings.

                                                                  is considered a Bronze Age society; inhabitants of the ancient Indus River Valley developed new techniques in metallurgy—the science of working with copper, bronze, lead, and tin. The Harappan script is regarded as pictographic since its signs represent birds, fish and a verity of human forms. The script was boustrophedon, written from right to left on one line and then from left to right in the next line.