Since the publication of the concordances of the inscriptions of the Indus seals many scholars have been working on the solution of the riddle presented by the 5000 years old script of the Indus valley. The decipherments that were based on these similarities resulted, however, only in the reading of some inscriptions as more or less obscure names; sometimes not even a phonetic value could be given. Nevertheless they are often presented as complete decipherments ...