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 ...

A Sanskrit–Greek stele and Buddha statue found in ancient Berenike, Egypt, reveal deep cultural links between Indian traders ...

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 ...

Keri:Archaeologist T Murugeshi recently decoded the oldest stone inscription in Brahmi script, which was located in Poriem in Sattari. This discovery has brought to light the fact that a new dynasty ...

A Siva Linga with an early Brahmi inscription dating back to the first century AD has been found in Nandeshwar temple at Netrumpakkam village in Maduranthakam taluk in Kancheepuram district. It could ...

CHENNAI: When veteran epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan published ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the earliest times to the sixth century AD’ it opened the door to the Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions found in ...

Read on how a city-based filmmaker, Akshay Golecha, translated the National Anthem into the 2,200-year-old Brahmi script for various cinema halls One of the verses of the National Anthem translated in ...

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 ...

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 symbol ...