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 ...

In the dim corridors of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where New Kingdom pharaohs were buried more than three millennia ago, visitors have long left their marks. Predominant among the graffiti are Greek ...

A 2,000-year-old Tamil-Brahmi inscription has been discovered in Egypt, providing important evidence of trade between India and the ancient west. The text also has the name of a Tamil trader who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Malaysia for his first foreign visit of 2026, the language he chose to emphasise was not Hindi or English, but Tamil. “India and Malaysia are also united by ...

With only a few months to go for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), led by T.T.V. Dhinakaran, on Wednesday (January 21, 2026) rejoined the National Democratic ...

Abstract: A polymorphic gate can change its functionality based on external conditions such as temperature, voltage, and external signals. Although this concept was proposed more than two decades ago ...

Crystal polymorphism is critically important in the fields of pharmaceuticals and materials science. For instance, a metastable polymorph of an active pharmaceutical ingredient may benefit from ...

This important manuscript presents a thorough analysis of trans-specific polymorphism (TSP) in Major Histocompatibility Complex gene families across primates. The analysis makes the most of currently ...