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  1. Harappa

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    The most iconic artifacts recovered from Harappa are the thousands of steatite seals, many inscribed with symbols from the undeciphered Harappan script. These seals typically feature a motif—often animals such as the unicorn bull, the elephant, or the tiger—and an inscription.
    The script itself is logographic, though debates continue regarding whether the sequence of signs represents a full language or rather a mnemonic system for trade registration or calendar tracking 9. A common, yet highly contentious, theory posits that the ins…