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Possible answers - not known facts.
What would deciphering the script give us?
Names
of cities, rulers and gods
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Records
trade, taxes, weights and measures
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Beliefs and stories
which objects cannot reveal
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Their language and dates — instead of approximate ones
- Names of cities, rulers and gods.
- Their beliefs, stories and religion - which objects alone cannot reveal.
- Which language they spoke.
NCERT question · Questions and activities, Q5
Imagine that the Harappan script gets deciphered tomorrow. What new types of information do you think historians might learn?
