THE HARAPPAN SCRIPT
The Harappans, script is still a mystery, because it is still undeciphered. So far the other forgotten scripts like those of ancient Egypt could be deciphered because scholars found some inscriptions written in the forgotten script followed by some of its forms in a known script. We have not discovered any bilingual inscription in Harappa so far. Moreover, the inscriptions discovered so far are short, usually engraved on seals. But they used ideograms and wrote from right to left. However, scholars are still struggling to unveil the mystery of the script. The script did not change all through the life of the Harappan Civilization. All the other ancient scripts have showed distinct changes over a period of time. This indicates that the Harappan script was not in common use. Perhaps a very small section of privileged scribes had a monopoly over the written word. About what they learnt & how they learnt, we have no answers. Whether they had some kind of school f...