About 30 Tamili and Prakrit inscriptions were found in rock-cut tombs in Egypt’s Valley of Kings, dating to the 1st–3rd centuries AD. Scholars say the find underscores India-Roman trade, merchant ...

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 ...

Tamil traders not only arrived in ships and left but also stayed in the region for a prolonged period ...

A centrepiece of The Hindu Lit For Life, to be held on January 17 and 18 in Chennai, will be a workshop on ‘How to read and write Tamil-Brahmi and Vattelluttu scripts’. Conducted by award-winning and ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. It has been roughly more than 100 years, since the discovery of the mighty civilization on the banks ...

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 ...

A Lost History: A consideration of historical writing in a quest to find the origins of the 500 BCE Brahmi script’ is an engrossing account that aims to prove that the Brahmi script in fact originated ...

Beautifully stark and minimal-pretty. That’s Ode by Oindrila and Arka’s signature. Founded in 2020 by NIFT alumni Oindrila Choudhury and Arka Kundu, their latest edit draws inspiration from the ...