Last month, I was at the iconic red-brick building of the Government Museum on Kasturba Road in Bengaluru behind which an exhibition called Inscription Stones of Bangalore was under way. On display ...

In a stunning turn of events, archaeologists in Frankfurt, Germany, have uncovered a 1,800-year-old silver amulet, believed to be the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. This ...

A study published in Nature introduces Aeneas, an AI tool developed by Google DeepMind in collaboration with researchers specialized in epigraphy. According to The Economic Times and The Economist, ...

While one bemoans the loss of heritage, there is also some exciting news for those interested in Bengaluru’s local history. A project to digitise inscriptions has found 43 hitherto undocumented ...

Efforts have begun to trace the original Vazhappally Shasanam, a key copper plate inscription from medieval Kerala.

Last September, Uday Kumar and Vinay Kumar were walking around near the metro station in Dasarahalli, near Peenya, in Bengaluru. They were on a mission. To find an inscription stone dating back ...

AMMAN — In “Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period” (published in 1934), American historian Charles Bradford Welles (1901-1969) gathered a collection of inscriptions in Greek and Latin as a ...

Chennai: The inscriptions at the ancient temple at Thiruvotriyur, where at least five Chola kings besides a Pandya king prayed and all of whom patronised the shrine lavishly, are replete with details ...

Manuscript and Inscription are the sources of historical knowledge. The manuscript is a handwritten or a manually typewritten document, whereas inscription is the writings on relatively hard surfaces ...