CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brahmi, the early Tamil script, have been ...

These findings, presented at a Chennai conference, rewrite our understanding of ancient trade routes and suggest multilingualism among these traders. Photo: X Researchers have discovered about 30 ...

The findings, which confirm that ancient Tamil traders travelled deep into the Egyptian interior for exploration and tourism, were presented by Swiss scholar Professor Ingo Strauch on the inaugural ...

Of 30 inscriptions uncovered at the Valley of Kings by Strauch and Schmid, 20 are in Tamil. CHENNAI: Around 2,000 years ago, a Tamil trader who visited the rock-cut tombs of Egyptian pharaohs ...

Among the inscriptions found in six rock-cut tombs, 20 are in Tamili and the remaining 10 are in Sanskrit and Prakrit, implying that people from several regions of the Indian subcontinent were ...

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 2016 to 2022 full list: The Tamil Nadu government has announced the State Film Awards for the years 2016 to 2022, recognising excellence in cinema and television. Among ...

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards honored top films and artists from 2016 to 2022 Suriya, Dhanush, Sai Pallavi, Nayanthara, and others won major acting awards AR Rahman, Lokesh Kanagaraj, and others won ...

The upcoming Tamil Nadu elections will give a decisive mandate, veteran journalist N Ram has asserted, ruling out any possibility of a hung assembly or power-sharing. The director at The Hindu ...

Archaeologists working in southern India have uncovered what is believed to be the longest Iron Age spear ever found in the country, a discovery that is reshaping views of early metalworking in the ...

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Archaeologists in Tamil Nadu have uncovered an 8ft-long iron spear dating back to 3,345 BCE, the longest Iron Age weapon found in India Chennai: Archaeologists in Tamil Nadu have unearthed an 8ft-long ...

The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence highlighted in a BBC report last year, which noted that archaeologists have identified iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dated between 2,953 BCE ...