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

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 ...

Keeladi is not simply about pottery shards and drainage systems; it is about who gets to shape the story of India, writes .

The letters are almost alike but Brahmi was written from left to right, while Kharashthi was written from right to left. Venerable Mahinda, the son of Emperor Ashoka, is generally credited with ...

The Brahmi is an abugida script in which consonants are placed in the center and vowel markings are made around the center - ...

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 ...

The government of Tamil Nadu has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the cryptic script of ...

Book Review Received truth with regard to the Brahmi Script is that it originated in the northern part of the landmass that is now known as India sometime in the 3rd Century BCE and that thanks to ...

A Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on a potsherd, which was found at the Khor Rori area in Oman, has come to light now. The script reads “nantai kiran” and it can be dated to first century CE ...

The Brahmi script is believed to be used between fifth century BC and sixth century AD and several historians and archaeologists connect it to the ancient Indus Valley civilization.

COIMBATORE: Learning a new language is not everybody’s cup of tea, let alone an old script such as the Tamil-Brahmi. But, for eight-year-old SJ Moshika, reading and writing the ancient form of ...

South and Southeast Asia. There are many languages in Indian and Southeast Asia that have distinctive writing systems, but they're all descended from the Brahmi script of some 2,300 years ago, and ...