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Has there been evidence of artefacts found which would indicate that the people of the Indus Valley civillisation had a system of communication? Support your answer with images or data collected and compiled by historians.

Yes, there is, in fact, evidence of aftefacts found that would suggest communication. An as yet undeciphered script found on relics from the Indus valley constitutes a genuine written language, a new mathematical analysis suggests.

The finding is the latest chapter in a bitter dispute over the interpretation of "Indus script". This is the name given to a collection of symbols found on artefacts from the Indus valley civilisation, which flourished in what is now eastern Pakistan and western India between 2500 and 1900 BC.


In 2002, a team of linguists and historians argued that the script did not represent language at all, but religious or political imagery.
These artefacts have yet to be translated.