{"id":15488,"date":"2025-01-05T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=15488"},"modified":"2025-01-05T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:59:57","slug":"mk-stalin-announces-1-million-prize-money-for-decoding-indus-valley-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=15488","title":{"rendered":"MK Stalin Announces $1 Million Prize Money For Decoding Indus Valley Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Inaugurating a 3-day international conference to mark the centenary of the discovery of the Indus civilisation, M K Stalin said,&#8221;We are still unable to clearly understand the script of the Indus valley civilsation that once flourished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe 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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indus valley script remains an unsolved riddle for over a century, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 6a43c6a3190636c09dda4654. Config Timestamp: 2026-06-30 13:37:39 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-07-05 18:43:58 UTC, Optimization Time: 3.38ms -->