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Horseplay in Harappa: The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax
Michael Witzel, Steve Farmer, 2000. Frontline 17(20), 30 September to 13 October 2000.
Shows that the "horse seal" in Rajaram and Jha's book is a computer-altered image of a broken unicorn-bull seal from Mohenjo-daro (M-772), and criticises the decipherment as a whole.
What it's used for here
The refutation of the horse-seal evidence.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Witzel, M., & Farmer, S. (2000). Horseplay in Harappa: The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax. Frontline 17(20), 30 September to 13 October 2000. https://www.oocities.org/Athens/Parthenon/2104/horseplay.html
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Witzel, Michael and Steve Farmer. “Horseplay in Harappa: The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax.” Frontline 17(20), 30 September to 13 October 2000 (2000).