The people of the Indus Valley civilization wrote with a script. So far scholars have been unable to decipher that script. Archaeologists who have been excavating newly discovered sites in…
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The people of the Indus Valley civilization wrote with a script. So far scholars have been unable to decipher that script. Archaeologists who have been excavating newly discovered sites in Mesopotamia hope to find a text that has scripts from both the Indus valley and Mesopotamia, the second of which has already been deciphered. __________________.
- They will then be able to decode the Indus valley language.
- They will then be able to decide which civilization was older.
- The nature of relationships between the two will come to light.
- They can then prove that there was trade between the two.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A - They will then be able to decode the Indus valley language.
A bilingual text containing the already-deciphered Mesopotamian script would let scholars decode the Indus script - the logical conclusion of the paragraph.
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