A new study says Iron Age began hundreds of years earlier – in Tamil Nadu. Why this is important
Globally, the Iron Age has long been attributed to the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, where iron technology is believed to have ...
UPSC Essentials | Mains answer practice — GS 1 : Questions on Harappan script and polar vortex (Week 87)
Are you preparing for CSE 2025? Here are questions from GS paper 1 for this week with essential points as the fodder for your ...
Stalin: Advent of Iron Age from Tamil soil
The Iron Age, when the discovery of iron smelting technology helped revolutionise agriculture, war and construction, is considered to have begun around 1,400 BCE - 1,500 BCE in India ...
India Offering $1 Million Prize For Deciphering a 5,300-year-old Script
You don’t have to buy a lottery ticket to win a million dollars thanks to an offer from southern India's Tamil Nadu state, but there is a catch: you need to be able to decipher 5,300-year-old writing.
India offering $1million to anyone who can decipher this 5,300-year-old writing
Archeologists and linguists, assemble! An eye-wateringly huge prize awaits whoever can decipher a 5,300-year-old Indus ...
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$1 million prize for anyone who can decode millennia-old Indus Valley script
The chief minister of India’s Tamil Nadu state has announced a $1 million reward for the person who can decode an ancient Indus Valley  script. The civilization thrived in what is today Pakistan and ...
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Here are two Indians who’ve tried to crack the Indus script in last 10 years
In the absence of a Rosetta Stone-like artefact – which helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphics – and a lack of ...
Tamil Nadu’s financial position, borrowings well within control: State Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister refutes opposition claims of financial crisis, highlighting state's economic growth and ...
Is 4,500 years old Indus script about to be deciphered? Buzz around AI-driven research
The researchers and scholars are using artificial intelligence to decode the ancient Indus Valley script. AI algorithms can ...
Speakeasy: Hunting for keys to crack Indus Valley code
About two decades ago, the conference rooms of Delhi institutions like the Sahitya Akademi and India International Centre ...