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 ...

Hyderabad: Telugu, Kannada and Brahmi inscriptions were found at three locations in the state. An inscription on a temple pillar dating back to 13th century in Telugu script was identified and ...

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 ...

Samrat Munshi, a private collector from Purba Bardhaman district’s Mangalkote, on Thursday handed nine antique objects, including a terracotta seal with Brahmi inscriptions, to the office of West ...

A centrepiece of The Hindu Lit For Life, to be held on January 17 and 18 in Chennai, will be a workshop on ‘How to read and write Tamil-Brahmi and Vattelluttu scripts’. Conducted by award-winning and ...