Each rock bed inside the cavern on top of the Siddharmalai in K Mettupatti, 40km from Madurai, has an Tamil-Brahmi inscription. But just below the ancient inscription are also names in English — the ...

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 ...

Thanjavur (TN) Jul 20 (PTI): A stone slab with Tamil 'brahmi' inscription of second century AD, considered significant in the history of early Tamil epigraphical Research, has been unearthed at a ...

Residents of Thihariya, Gampaha complain that a protective fence erected to help preserve early Brahmi and old Sinhala inscriptions at the Warana Raja Maha Vihara has been damaged but authorities have ...

Hyderabad: Researchers discovered a terracotta object containing Brāhmī inscription written in Prakrit language and in characters of the 3rd century B.C. This inscription reads “dēvānaṁ” prefixed with ...

HYDERABAD: Researchers have discovered a terracotta object containing Brahmi inscriptions written in the Prakrit language and in characters of the 3rd century BC on the bank of the Manjira river at ...

Researchers discovered a terracotta object containing Brāhmī inscription written in Prakrit language and in characters of the 3rd century B.C. This inscription reads “dēvānaṁ” prefixed with a symbol ...

A distinguishing feature of the Early Historic Period, between 500 BCE and 300 CE, is the dramatic appearance of lithic Brahmi inscriptions, which indicates a ‘leap’ from protohistory to history, a ...