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What Can We Know About an Ancient Symbol We Cannot Read? - The Indus Unicorn and the Limits of Archaeology | Sleepy Facts About History
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A small square of fired stone, carved with extraordinary precision, carries the image of a heavy-bodied, single-horned animal. Known today as the Indus unicorn, this motif appears on roughly sixty to seventy percent of the animal-bearing seals produced by the Indus Valley Civilization. Across thousands of miles and centuries of urban history, the image repeats with remarkable fidelity. Yet the meaning of this shared visual language remains entirely unreadable to us.
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