Krishna Rao (archaeologist)

Krishna Rao is an Indian archaeologist and writer born in 1930.^{[citation needed]}

He received his master's degree from Andhra University in 1953, and a postgraduate degree in archaeology in 1967 from the Archaeological Survey of India. For a time, he was in charge of the Amaravathi Museum in Andhra Pradesh, India.^{[citation needed]}

Published works

Indus Script Deciphered (1982)^[1] was published by Agam Kala Prakashan, Delhi, India.

In this book, Rao noted similarities between Sumerian pre-cuneiform writing, and Indus script, and proposed that Indus script encoded Sanskrit and a number of other languages. Rao theorized that Indus script consisted of ideograms and syllable signs, rather than being a pure syllabary like Brahmi script.^{[non-primary source needed]}

References

^ The World's Writing Systems, p. 171, by Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, 1996

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[1] The World's Writing Systems, p. 171, by Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, 1996

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