The archaeological site of Keeladi has unearthed remnants of an urban settlement, fuelling competing historical claims.

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 ...

Meanwhile, her parents K Selvakumar (41) and Jeevitha (31) guided her to learn the script with the help of the internet. “My mother wrote Tamil-Brahmi letters next to Tamil letters.

CHENNAI: A potsherd with a Tamil Brahmi script, ‘Mththi’, in three letters, considered a rare finding, was found in the Vadakkupattu archaeological site, near Oragadam in Kancheepuram district ...

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.

The Brahmi script is believed to be have been developed later, he added. It is to be noted that the both works were approved by the Tamil University, Thanjavur.

Tamil Brahmi inscriptions also had been found in the Anuradhapura period in parallel to Sinhala Brahmi. PallavaGrantha and East Asian Scripts Sinhala script began evolving from Brahmi from 1 CE ...

The Keeladi village in India's southern Tamil Nadu state has unearthed archeological finds that have sparked a political and historical debate. Amid coconut groves, a series of 15ft (4.5m) deep ...