Krishna Rao (archaeologist)
# Krishna Rao (archaeologist)

Krishna Rao is an Indian archaeologist and writer born in 1930.

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 Museum in Andhra Pradesh, India.

## Published works

Indus Script Deciphered (1982) was published by Agam Kala Prakashan, Delhi, India.

In this book, Rao noted similarities between 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.

