A series of Indus seals from Iravatham Mahadevan, a scholar and author who has studied Indus script for decades.Credit: Florida Institute of Technology
Posted on 03/23/2024 10:52:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The civilization of Indus River Valley is considered one of the three earliest civilizations in world history, along with Mesopotamia and Egypt. Bigger geographically than those two as it unfolded starting in 3300 BCE across what is now Pakistan and India, the Indus civilization boasted uniform weights and measures, skilled artisans, a multifaceted system of trade and commerce, and upwards of 500 symbols and signs for communicating.
But one question has vexed scholars for decades and hindered attempts to learn more about this civilization: Were those characters a language or more akin to pictograms? Even as some experts begin to translate the right-to-left script found in Indus inscriptions, there is little agreement.
"That's a controversy which is not yet settled," said Debasis Mitra, a professor of computer science who is now connected to this quest thanks to a novel grant he was awarded from the National Endowment for the Humanities: "Ancient Script Digitization and Archival (ASDA) of Indus Valley Artifacts using Deep Learning."
Graduate student assistant Deva Atturu, who will defend his master's thesis in April, is assisting Mitra with conducting the grant-funded research. Just this month he and Mitra virtually attended the South Asian Archaeology Conference 2024 from the University of Chicago, where Atturu presented on their work...
The process uses an automated script recognition (ASR) system to extract coded sequences of graphemes from a dataset of more than 1,000 photographs of Indus seals. Using two-staged artificial neural networks, the ASR has achieved 88% success in detecting graphemes.
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A series of Indus seals from Iravatham Mahadevan, a scholar and author who has studied Indus script for decades.Credit: Florida Institute of Technology
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Found the word ‘Bollywood’ yet
There are many scientific anamolies that we have no causal data for
So many.
What is so unique about the various metal pillars of Ashoka that have not deteriorated after thousands of years of exposure.
What drive methods were used in sky machines, Vimana , some being entire castles floating in the sky?
Ancient Flight grapheme:
Artist rendering from descriptions:
using Deep Learning
Great...so we will find out just who the white devils are and how they unleashed oppression and global warming.
We might also discover the source of “Hello! We’ve been trying to reach you...”
I’m sufficiently tripped out by that.
In this photo of an ancient vedic stone sculpture, the vimana is in the upper part of this stone sconce.There are too many sources from seperate, independent sources of carving, writing and ancient folk tales to relegate Vimana to the merely fictional. The real important question is about how they operated, and so far what we see is that it details a very extensive, comprehensive interaction between mind and anti gravitational forces.It may be that as modern men and women, our minds do not have the ability to interact with equipment used back then.
The Vimana Pushpaka—An Ancient Flying Vehicle That is Described Traveling to Space
Good luck to them.
Bfl
I don’t see the space vehicle that you’re referring to. However, it is the case that the ancient sumerians did seem to worship what appear to be beings from space. And contemporary sunni moslems around the gulf region view adam and eve as space beings from space.
At minimum this is a top down alignment that is the opposite of the western bottoms up alignment.
As in for example this difference is the difference between God is the measure of all things vs Man is the measure of all things.
Which temple is this sculpture from?
I don’t see the space vehicle that you’re referring to. However, it is the case that the ancient sumerians did seem to worship what appear to be beings from space. And contemporary sunni moslems around the gulf region view adam and eve as space beings from space.
At minimum this is a top down alignment that is the opposite of the western bottoms up alignment.
As in for example this difference is the difference between God is the measure of all things vs Man is the measure of all things.
“The 1.6 million-year-old discovery that changes what we know about human evolution”
Thanks! That’ll be a topic here sometime later today.
Well, the top is definately an Apache Attack Helicopter.
Yes, it is Egypyian showing that Egyptians likely had flying devices. So did the ancient dynasties of India according to the ancient texts on Vimanas.
West Pediment, Phnom Rung 0434.jpg
Above the west lintel of the sanctuary is a scene from the Ramayana. The temple shown here is a miniature of Phnom Rung itself, being drawn through the air and surrounded by Hanuman’s monkey army and the heads of celestials. Freeman (p.108) identifies this as Ravana’s Pushpaka chariot, in which Sita was taken to view the battlefield.
“The civilization of Indus River Valley is considered one of the three earliest civilizations in world history”
Correction: One of the earliest studied ancient civilizations.
There is a pyramid in Indonesia with it’s oldest layer said to be 27,000 years old. And it is not the only site in the world with structural remains older than what classic ancient history says are the oldest civilizations.
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