[aristeides]

Thanks, but I do hope you don't just defer to me, but look at the Bryant book. I think it does quite a good job of presenting the state of the evidence.

Bryant is agnostic about whether the language of the Indus Valley script might be some early version of Sanskrit/Vedic. He thinks that the resolution of the question depends on a decipherment of the script.

By the way, I don't think any respectable scholar suggested that the language of Linear B was an earlier version of Greek before the Ventris-Chadwick decipherment proved that it was. So the Indus Valley script turning out to be Sanskrit would not be without parallel.

[colorado tanker]

Perhaps not without parallel, but if Indus Valley script turns out to be early Sanskrit, it would be major, major news.