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. iTamil, a project of city-based Karky Research Foundation, is an attempt to reform Tamil ...

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, ...

Young archaeologists M. Prasanna and R. Ramesh like to climb the hills around Madurai, which have pre-historic rock art, Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions on the brow of natural caverns, beautiful bas-reliefs ...

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.

Apart from harboring 780 languages, India is also home to a large number of scripts which have been lost while some are on the brink of extinction. One of the many almost forgotten ones is called ...

Even as many of our heroes, from Kamal Haasan to Dhanush, are waving the remake wand with tested and successful scripts from other states, Kollywood is found to be in large supply of interesting ...