Krishna Rao (archeologist)

Krishna Rao is an Indian archaeologist and writer, born in 1930.

He got his Master's Degree from Andhra University in 1953, and a postgraduate degree in Archaeology in 1967 from the Archeological Survey of India. For a time he was in charge of the Amravathi Museum in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Published Works

Indus Script Deciphered (1982)^[1] 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.

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