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 ...
In 1837, an ancient mystery was finally solved. In a paper, rather verbosely titled, Interpretation Of The Most Ancient Of The Inscriptions On The Pillar Called The Làt Of Feroz Shah, Near Delhi, And ...
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 ...
The advent of globalisation has precipitated demise of human languages. People find it easier to communicate with those outside their culture through one single language. While languages spoken by the ...
For K Rajan, each excavation he conducted in Kodumanal, an early historic site in Erode district of Tamil Nadu, led to new findings. His forthcoming monograph on graffiti and Brahmi inscriptions on ...
We often forget that a script is different from a speech. Script is written language while speech is spoken language We often forget that a script is different from a speech. Script is written ...
RENOWNED EPIGRAPHIST and palaegraphist Prof TP Verma said here on Monday that the ancient Indian Brahmi script was not only the mother of all Indian scripts but also that of scripts of many South-East ...
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 Tamil ...
For K Rajan, each excavation he conducted in Kodumanal, an early historic site in Erode district of Tamil Nadu, led to new findings. His forthcoming monograph on graffiti and Brahmi inscriptions on ...
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