His forthcoming monograph on graffiti and Brahmi inscriptions on pottery from Kodumanal, “Early Writing System: A journey from Graffiti to Brahmi”, to be released on October 10, brings in ...

Islamic conquests from the eighth century replaced Brahmi-derived scripts with Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

The sudden appearance of the Brahmi writing system is one of the great mysteries of writing in India, as there is no evidence of inscriptions beforehand. Another script, ...

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan, who will be conducting an online course on reading and writing Brahmi, in association with INTACH Bengaluru, talks about the history and evolution of this ancient script ...

#uதுකම් (#Duty): Continued from Yesterday By Laleen Jayamanne Brahmi Script on a Pot The Brahmi script holds potential for thinking about Lanka and its culture’s links to a wider world, prior to the ...

The Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka’s (RASSL) monthly public lecture will be delivered by Dr. Malini Dias, Vice President, Royal Asiatic Society on the “Language of the Brahmi Writing Dated 600-500 ...

A Lost History: A consideration of historical writing in a quest to find the origins of the 500 BCE Brahmi script’ is an engrossing account that aims to prove that the Brahmi script in fact originated ...

Tamil-Brahmi script dates back to third century BCE to first century CE. ... But, for eight-year-old SJ Moshika, reading and writing the ancient form of Tamil is a breeze.

Artefacts found at the site in Keezhadi, about 12 km from Madurai, push back the date of Tamil-Brahmi script to another century i.e. 6th century BCE.

A short inscription engraved in the Brahmi characters has been discovered in the Edakal cave on the Ambukuthi hill in Kerala's Wayanad district. This is the fifth Tamil-Brahmi inscription ...

His forthcoming monograph on graffiti and Brahmi inscriptions on pottery from Kodumanal, “Early Writing System: A journey from Graffiti to Brahmi”, to be released on October 10, brings in ...