Ancient Doodles

Want a Million Dollars? Get Busy Deciphering This Ancient Script.

While sipping my morning tea and scrolling through the web to see what's new in the world today, I came across this article. The word "ancient" always makes me pause and dig into more details. For someone who always thought history was boring, this is an unexpected fascination. I don't like dates, and probably that was the reason behind my major dislike towards the subject in school. I don't know if it's a term but my memory is event-based, not information-based. If I have to recall something, I think of events and start connecting the dots and eventually reach the needed piece of information that I was trying to recall in the first place.

Since I don't have to take history exams now, I find pleasure in reading it. The aforementioned article was about an ancient script found in Indus civilizations. Now that's not new; archaeologists find artefacts all the time. This one was found in Harappa—an archaeological site in Pakistan. It was a bull seal with a weird script, which apparently nobody's been able to decipher yet. It's thought to have some links to ancient Sanskrit. To me, the symbols look like a whisk, mixer/tongs, grater, and a lemon slice—a recipe of some sort? Lol.

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I don't want to offend the researchers who have dedicated their entire lives to researching, but my theory is—that it is 100% possible that those symbols hold no profound meaning; they are just somebody's passing thoughts, and that piece of rock could be anything but a seal. In the olden times, people had a lot of free time, so it is possible that someone was probably just doodling on the rock to kill time.

Now I'm not saying all the artefacts are meaningless. Many discoveries are proof that advanced civilizations existed back in the time, over 5000 years ago. Possibly, they were more intelligent than we give them credit for. The Indus Civilization is a good example of that, known for its advanced, innovative, and organized ways of life.

I get the genius behind the intricate structures, but the scribbles of aliens and UFOs are creepy. Not to mention the rumour that pyramids were built by aliens. I'm a believer of Quran, and it explicitly says that pharaohs got those structures built. Who knows someone from the present planted those scribbles for attention and content. My mind always goes in that direction. With this mindset, how can I decode something.

Excuse my crazy line of thought—we still can't deny or ignore that those sketches of aliens and UFOs could be more than somebody's imagination and not merely a creative expression of leisure hour.

Coming back to that ancient script on the bull seal, I'm not even sure if it's a proper language or just symbols. If we had a real-life Robert Langdon maybe he could decipher it for us. Ahh... how he made me fall in love with semiotics. I wish Dan Brown get out of his hibernation and write a book on ancient civilizations.

I found little information on the bull though. It's called Zebu Bull which represents the most powerful clan. So, maybe it is a seal used for trade or ownership by the top officials back in the time. But what about the rest?

Doodles or not? Your thoughts?