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'''Krishna Rao''' is an Indian archaeologist and writer born in 1930.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}<br />
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He received his master's degree from [[Andhra University]] in 1953, and a postgraduate degree in archaeology in 1967 from the [[Archaeological Survey of India]]. For a time he was in charge of the [[Amaravathi (village), Guntur district|Amaravathi]] Museum in [[Andhra Pradesh]], India.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}<br />
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==Published works==<br />
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''Indus Script Deciphered'' (1982)<ref>The World's Writing Systems, p. 171, by Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, 1996</ref> was published by Agam Kala Prakashan, Delhi, India.<br />
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In this book, Rao noted similarities between [[Sumerian language|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]].{{Primary source inline|date=December 2021}}<br />
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