Script - Indus (Harappan)

Indus (Harappan) is a script value used to denote text from the ancient Indus Valley civilization, primarily found on seals, pottery, and inscriptions dating from around 2600 to 1900 BCE. This script remains undeciphered, with its symbol set comprising roughly 400 to 600 distinct signs, often written right to left. In digital text encoding, assigning this value helps distinguish Harappan glyphs from other ancient writing systems, even though no unified standard font or full character block exists for it yet, and its representation relies on placeholder or research-specific codepoints. The value supports scholarly annotation and cross-referencing of fragmentary archaeological data, aiding computational analysis of sign frequencies and sequences, while emphasizing that the script’s exact linguistic structure and meaning are still under investigation.