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 ...

A path-breaking finding has shed new light on trade links between ancient Tamilagam, other parts of India and the Roman Empire. Two researchers have identified close to 30 inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi ...

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 ...

The discovery is expected to provide new evidence of direct, two-way contact between ancient Tamil traders and Egypt during the Roman period._Representative photo Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions in Egypt's ...

Reaffirming confidence in the ‘Dravidian model’ of governance, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin said on Monday (February 9, 2026) that Tamil Nadu had grown to compete with nations in attracting investment.

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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 ...