From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

Yajnadevam, aka Bharath Rao, is a rare cryptographer – among epigraphists, archaeologists, linguists etc – who can claim to have cracked the code to deciphering the Indus Valley script. The earliest ...

Tamil Nadu rejects New Delhi’s three-language policy imposing Hindi in schools. As a result, the Union government blocked educational funding for the state, fuelling tensions. For his part, Chie ...

The script at the heart of the mystery of this 5,000-year-old artifact might be worth a million bucks if you can figure it out.

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin kicked up buzz around a tantalising riddle from the subcontinent’s history, as he ...

MK Stalin, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, announced a $1 million reward in January for anyone who can successfully decode ...

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient ...

Recent scientific dating confirms Tamil Nadu’s Iron Age dates back to 3000 BCE, predating earlier estimates. Minister Thangam Thennarasu highlights excavations at Keezhadi, Sivagalai, and ...

Iron implements found in Tamil Nadu indicate that the Iron Age began here 5,300 years ago. Politicizing this fact does a ...

Granary, workmen’s quarters, terracotta figurines, pottery with Indus script, copper bullock cart, limestone weights, cemetery burials, furnace remains, superficial evidence of horse.