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.

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

President Pratibha Patil presented the 'Kalaignar M Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award' to Professor Arko Parpola, Professor-Emeritus of Indology, Institute of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, ...

Tirunelveli: Chennai-based archeologist and scholar, Priya Krishnan and her accomplice, Vinod, during their field visit found stones with 10th century inscriptions in ancient Tamil script, Vattezhuthu ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: Marking the birth anniversary of noted epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan, ‘Tamizhi’, a documentary film on evolution of Tamil script was screened at Roja Muthiah research library on Wednesday.

A school in Karur is opening a doorway to ancient wisdom by teaching its students Tamizhi, one of the oldest scripts of the only surviving classical language in the country — Tamil. KARUR: A school in ...

Announcing $1 million prize for deciphering the Indus script, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin lamented on Sunday that even a century after the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which has ...

Stalin said the Indus Valley Civilisation's (IVC) discovery announcement by Sir John Marshall in 1924 was a turning point in the history of Indian subcontinent. Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin ...