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 ...
Until now, historians knew of Tamil traders reaching Egyptian ports such as Berenike along the Red Sea. However, these newly studied inscriptions indicate that merchants did not merely dock, trade, ...
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 ...
In Egypt researchers have found 2,000 year old Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions inside the royal tombs of the valley of the Kings. The researchers noted that one of the inscription specifically reads 'Cikai ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...