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The 14 pages that link to Indus script, each with the reason it gives.

• Indus RiverRelated: Its inscriptions survive at settlements sustained by the Indus basin.

• Writing systemRelated: Its undeciphered status marks the limits of reconstructing writing’s origins.

• Indus Valley CivilisationRelated: Its undeciphered signs limit what can be known about the civilization’s languages and institutions.

• Mohenjo-daroRelated: Inscriptions found at Mohenjo-daro remain unreadable without a decipherment.

• MehrgarhRelated: Its appearance belongs to a much later urban world than Mehrgarh’s earliest layers.

• John MarshallRelated: The script’s continued unreadability limits what Marshall’s discoveries can establish about Indus society.

• History of IndiaRelated: Without a secure reading, the civilisation’s languages and institutions remain difficult to reconstruct.

• Dravidian peoplesRelated: Its unknown language leaves open whether early Dravidian speech was present in the Indus cities.

• Recorded historyRelated: Its undeciphered inscriptions show how writing can exist without yielding readable historical testimony.

• Prehistoric AsiaRelated: Its undeciphered status complicates the boundary between prehistory and recorded history in South Asia.