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 ...

In a discovery that could push back the epigraphical and linguistic history of Telangana by a couple of centuries, researchers found a piece of terracotta with Brahmi script of the Ashoka period in ...

One of greatest emperors, not for his military might, but for hearts & minds he conquered Discovered in 1915 by a British Engineer, Ashoka’s Maski edict was the first inscription with the Mauryan ...

Hero stones broke the popular notion that Jain monks coming from North brought Tamil script system or it spread from Ashoka’s Brahmi letters. Industries, Tamil language and culture minister Thangam ...

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 ...

The earliest known inscriptions in Kannada date back to the 4th century BC. By 400 A.D., however, the Sangam era, which flourished from about 300 BC, made little or no reference to Kannada as a ...

Few know that the Ashoka pillar located in Allahabad Fort serves as an important link for the historians and scholars as far as their knowledge about the ruler Samudragupt is concerned. Few know that ...