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The Indus Code: Who is in the race to crack a 4,000-year-old script?

Alumna Journalist in Residence Adrija Roychowdhury writes in The Indian Express about old and new contenders in the century-old race to decipher the "Indus Valley Script." The article is partly based on the research project she pursued at the MPIWG from April to May 2026, "Encoding Ancient History: The Curious Case of Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Indus Script."