CHENNAI —
The Indus valley script remains an unsolved riddle for over a century, Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said here on Sunday and announced a prize of US
dollar 1 million to those who decipher it.
Inaugurating a 3-day international conference to mark the
centenary of the discovery of the Indus civilisation, Stalin said,"We are
still unable to clearly understand the script of the Indus valley civilsation
that once flourished."
Efforts are on to this day by scholars to solve the riddle
and in order to encourage such efforts, a prize of US dollar 1 million will be
provided to individuals or organisations that solves the riddle, he announced.
The Indus civilsation, one of the earliest, is reputed for
its urban culture and its script has not been decrypted yet. The fading away of
such a civilisation, and its context, also remains a riddle.
