Access
This item is available free as a special feature to registered visitors. To read this story in full you will need to log in or register with nature.com (see right).
(If you have already registered with any of NPG's online journals, you do not need to register again.)
doi:10.1038/nindia.2009.128; Published online 8 May 2009
Research highlight
Indus valley script is linguistic
Using computational and statistical techniques to search for patterns in Indus writing, fresh research1 concludes that it fits the description of 'linguistic writing' – a system rigid enough to convey unambiguous meaning and yet flexible enough to allow expression of a large variety of information.
Since their first discovery more than 130 years ago, speculations about the meaning of the Indus script abound.
This item is available free as a special feature to registered visitors. To read this story in full you will need to log in or register with nature.com (see right).
(If you have already registered with any of NPG's online journals, you do not need to register again.)
