In 1837, an ancient mystery was finally solved. In a paper, rather verbosely titled, Interpretation Of The Most Ancient Of The Inscriptions On The Pillar Called The Làt Of Feroz Shah, Near Delhi, And ...

V. Vedachalam's workshop, ‘How to read and write Tamil-Brahmi and Vattelluttu scripts’, is a centrepiece of The Hindu Lit for ...

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...

Sinhala script had derived from Brahmi script that had given rise to almost all North and South Indian Scripts. In the older tradition, Brahmi has been classified into two subgroups namely Northern ...

The excavations at Keeladi, where scientific findings revealed the date of the Tamil Brahmi script to be 600BC, would have been expected to create an interest around the ancient script. But a menhir ...

COIMBATORE: Learning a new language is not everybody’s cup of tea, let alone an old script such as the Tamil-Brahmi. But, for eight-year-old SJ Moshika, reading and writing the ancient form of Tamil ...

RENOWNED EPIGRAPHIST and palaegraphist Prof TP Verma said here on Monday that the ancient Indian Brahmi script was not only the mother of all Indian scripts but also that of scripts of many South-East ...

The advent of globalisation has precipitated demise of human languages. People find it easier to communicate with those outside their culture through one single language. While languages spoken by the ...

Artefacts found at the archaeological site in Keezhadi, about 12 km from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, have been dated to 580 BCE, with “graffiti marks” on them pointing to a possible continuity in script ...

A government school teacher from Ramanathapuram district is teaching few of his students to read and write ancient Tamil Brahmi script through WhatsApp in order to keep the students engaged during the ...