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 ...
Chennai: In a discovery that rewrites the maritime history of ancient India, researchers have identified 2,000-year-old Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions inside the high-security royal tombs of the valley of ...
An inscription in Dravida Brahmi characters, reported from the government forest division, Karadukka, in the Kasaragod district of Kerala, has been deciphered. The inscription in bold and legible ...
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 ...
A Tamil-Brahmi inscription that pushes back the association of Samanamalai (“Jaina Hill”), 15 km from Madurai, with Jainism to 2,200 years, has been discovered on the hill. Although scholars in ...
Chennai: In a rare find a Tamil-Brahmi inscription was found on an ancient Shivalingam in neighbouring Kancheepuram district. The beauty is that Tamil-Brahmi (Brahmi is the earliest Indian ...
MADURAI: Historians discovered a 2,200-year-old Tamil Brahmi inscription in Thiruparankundram hillock cave in Madurai on Wednesday. Thiruparankundram in Madurai is the foremost of Murugan’s Arupada ...
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 ...
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 ...
Visitors to the world heritage Buddhist site in Sanchi, about 45 km from Bhopal, are often overwhelmed by the splendor of the centerpiece Stupa but fail to notice the interesting historically crucial ...
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 ...