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 ...

Read on how a city-based filmmaker, Akshay Golecha, translated the National Anthem into the 2,200-year-old Brahmi script for various cinema halls One of the verses of the National Anthem translated in ...

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 ...

Unknown to the media and most in Sri Lanka the Sinhala language has won international recognition. More precisely, it is the Sinhala script rather than the language itself that has been named as one ...

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 ...

Coimbatore: A terracotta weight holder with inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi has been excavated by archaeologists at a megalithic site in 'Periathadagam,' on Coimbatore outskirts. The weight holder ('mann ...

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 ...

COIMBATORE: Learning a new language is not everybody’s cup of tea, let alone an old script such as the Tamil-Brahmi. But, for eight-year-old SJ Moshika, reading and writing the ancient form of Tamil ...

Young archaeologists M. Prasanna and R. Ramesh like to climb the hills around Madurai, which have pre-historic rock art, Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions on the brow of natural caverns, beautiful bas-reliefs ...

Pune-based artist, Aditi Deo, is researching the ancient Indian Brahmi script to bring it into mainstream art and lettering, and fashion a children’s book on how shapes turn into sounds Pune-based ...