Computers Unlock More Secrets of the Indus Valley Script — The University of Washington News reports that a team led by a university researcher has used computers to extract patterns in ancient Indus symbols created by an urban civilization from four thousand years in the past. UWN describes that the study shows “distinct patterns in the symbols’ placement in sequences and creates a statistical model for the unknown language.” This and more in Four Short Links.
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Four short links: 6 August 2009 – Ancient Language, NoSQL, Molecular Gastronomy, SQL Weirdness
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