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

CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, ...

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 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 Tamil Nadu government on Sunday announced that it will offer a prize of $1 million, or Rs 8.5 crore, to any expert or organisation that succeeds in deciphering the script of the Indus Valley ...

The Unicode font system widely used across several platforms to type Tamil script may be misrepresenting the language. The system by listing Sanskrit letters as Tamil letters, is putting out an ...