Until now, historians knew of Tamil traders reaching Egyptian ports such as Berenike along the Red Sea. However, these newly studied inscriptions indicate that merchants did not merely dock, trade, ...
CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, ...
The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD ...
In Egypt researchers have found 2,000 year old Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions inside the royal tombs of the valley of the Kings. The researchers noted that one of the inscription specifically reads 'Cikai ...
A new finding has lights on the ancient trade links between Tamilagam and other parts of India and the Roman Empire, identifying 30 inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi, Prakrit and Sanskrit at the tombs ...
Tamil traders not only arrived in ships and left but also stayed in the region for a prolonged period ...
A fascinating discovery has been made in Valley of the Kings, Egypt, where centuries-old inscriptions in Indian languages ...
For historians, the implications are immediate. They reveal how ancient traders from the subcontinent interacted with the ...