Ebook: The Soviet Decipherment of the Indus Valley Script: Translation and Critique

Though the attempted decipherment of the Proto-Indian texts by the Soviet team must on the whole be considered unsuccessful, the following monographs are perhaps the best treatment to date of various aspects of the problem of decipherment of the Proto-Indian script of the Indus Valley. The Soviet team, made up of linguists of varying abilities, ethnologists and mathematicians,
carried out various computer-oriented analyses on the thousands of brief inscriptions incised on seals, sherds, amulets and copper plates from the Indus Valley civilization (now dated from approximately 2200 B. C. to 1750 B. C. at its outer limits). Basing their analyses on the assumption that the inscriptions are monolingual, and limited in extent and content, they employed positional and interval statistics using controls consisting of equivalent comparisons of known writing systems.
(from: Preface)