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Updated: May 12, 2025
It's against all archaeological experience that a language so completely dead as this one could be deciphered. There was a continuity between all the other ancient languages by knowing Greek, Champollion learned to read Egyptian; by knowing Egyptian, Hittite was learned. That's why you and your colleagues have never been able to translate the Harappa hieroglyphics; no such continuity exists there.
She remembered the digs around Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus Valley, and the careful, patient native laborers the painstaking foremen, the pickmen and spademen, the long files of basketmen carrying away the earth.
For a while, they talked about the building they had just finished exploring, then drifted into reminiscences of their work on Terra von Ohlmhorst's in Asia Minor, with the Hittite Empire, and hers in Pakistan, excavating the cities of the Harappa Civilization.
You've been working for years in the Indus Valley; how many words of Harappa have you or anybody else ever been able to read?" "We never found a university, with a half-million-volume library, at Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro." "And, the first day we entered this building, we established meanings for several words," Selim von Ohlmhorst added.
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