Indus potters made plain everyday pots, and fine decorated pots like this one. The top half of the pot is decorated with painted birds ... Indus Valley writing used at least 400 picture-signs.

It was very hot in the Indus Valley so people spent a lot of time ... Children could play there with toys or with pets, such as monkeys and birds. People who did not have a courtyard would still ...

Yajnadevam, aka Bharath Rao, is a rare cryptographer – among epigraphists, archaeologists, linguists etc – who can claim to have cracked the code to deciphering the Indus Valley script.