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The Indus Valley people must have written on perishable material; carved stone seals cannot have been all the writing they had.

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  1. Irving Finkel

    Assyriologist at the British Museum

    And it’s obvious, it’s obvious that they had writing on a perishable material. They can’t just have had inscribed stone seals, and many parts of India today write on palm leaf.

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