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Question
What do you know about the Indus Script?
Solution
The Indus Script has not been deciphered as yet. So, the only source of the script is some seals and copper tablets. Seals display some sort of pictorial writing. Besides this, similar inscriptions have been found engraved on copper tablets with figures of men and animals.
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