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 ...

A bronze exhibit is seen at Phra Nakhon Khiri National Museum in Phetchaburi Province, Thailand, on Aug. 25, 2026. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...