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 ...

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 ...

A government school teacher from Ramanathapuram district is teaching few of his students to read and write ancient Tamil Brahmi script through WhatsApp in order to keep the students engaged during the ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Centuries before Emperor Ashoka, Brahmi script was in use, reveals a recent paper by archaeologist Vinay Gupta. A Superintendent Archaeologist (SA) at the Archaeological Survey of India ...

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 ...