CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, ...

Want to see how your name might look in Tamil-Brahmi or Vatteluttu? Here’s an app that can convert the present Tamil script into its ancient epigraphic counterparts of Tamil-Brahmi and Vatteluttu.

For historians, the implications are immediate. They reveal how ancient traders from the subcontinent interacted with the ...

"I came and saw.\" Discover the story of Cikai Korran, the Tamil trader who left his name in the Valley of the Kings 2,000 years ago. New 2026 findings here.

Tamil traders not only arrived in ships and left but also stayed in the region for a prolonged period ...

A Tamil-Brahmi script on a pot rim, reading “a ma na”, meaning a Jaina, has been found at Pattanam in Ernakulam district, Kerala, establishing that Jainism was prevalent on the west coast at least ...

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the script ...

A team of engineers is attempting to re-imagine the script of one of the oldest-surviving classical languages. iTamil, a project of city-based Karky Research Foundation, is an attempt to reform Tamil ...

Artefacts found at the archaeological site in Keezhadi, about 12 km from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, have been dated to 580 BCE, with “graffiti marks” on them pointing to a possible continuity in script ...