--------
More than 4,000 objects bearing the symbols characteristic to the Indus Valley Civilization have been discovered in the past century, a wealth of information that should, at least in theory, mean that archaeologists know everything there is to know about the time. However, that is not the case. Since the earliest symbols were made available to the Western world, in 1873, no one has been able to crack the intricate language that belonged to a group of people who lived between the 26th and 20th centuries BC. American and Indian researchers are now using advanced computers to crack the mysterious code.“The statistical model provides insights into the underlying grammatical structure of the Indus script. Such a model can be valuable for decipherment, because any meaning ascribed to a symbol must make sense in the context of other symbols that precede or follow it,†University of Washington Associate Professor of Computer Science and researcher Rajesh Rao explains the effort!
. He is also the lead author of a new study detailing the effort, published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).The new computer model disproved claims made by some researchers, who argued over the years that the symbols discovered on ve...
--------
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Indus-Valley-Script-to-Be-Deciphered-by-Computer-Model-118304.shtml
This e-mail was sent by Experiment23 Inc., located in New York, NY
10163. To not receive further e-mails, please visit
http://help.pingie.com
No comments:
Post a Comment