Krishna Rao is an Indian archaeologist and writer born in 1930.
[citation needed] 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.
[citation needed] Indus Script Deciphered (1982)[1] 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.