Raamesh Gowri Raghavan first encountered the Brahmi script back in the 1990s. “These were Ashokan inscriptions,” says the Mumbai-based writer, epigraphist, digital marketer and scientist. Wanting to ...

Noted historian and archaeologist M R Raghava Varier has confirmed the presence of Brahmi script at the ancient Edakkal caves in a remote part of Wayanad district. KOCHI: Noted historian and ...

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 ...

Did the Tamil-Brahmi script originate in the post-Asokan period, that is, after the 3rd century BCE, or is it pre-Asokan? A cist-burial excavated in 2009 at Porunthal village, on the foothills of the ...

New Delhi: Centuries before Emperor Ashoka, Brahmi script was in use, reveals a recent paper by archaeologist Vinay Gupta. A Superintendent Archaeologist (SA) at the Archaeological Survey of India ...

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the script ...

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 ...

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 ...

BANGKOK — Two gold rings, aged around 2,000 years old, were discovered during an excavation at a new archaeological site in western Thailand, officials said. The rings were found with human bones ...

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 ...