CHENNAI: Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday unveiled the statue of Sir John Hubert Marshall -- who announced the discovery ...

M. K. Stalin, the southern Tamil Nadu state leader offering the $1 million prize, is among those who believe the Indus language was a Dravidian ancestor – which Rao described as the more ...

Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin unveils statue of Sir John Marshall, key figure in Indus Valley Civilization excavations.

The Dravidians—believed to be the original inhabitants of India—built cities so advanced that they baffle archaeologists even today. The Indus Valley Civilization, stretching back to 2500 BCE ...

Q If the Indus script was largely non-linguistic, why did your Chennai paper talk about ancestral Dravidian symbolism? Because, in order to express more abstract meanings, the Indus scribes sometimes ...

He said that evidence so far collected convinced him … that the Indus script was Dravidian. Further research will continue not only by him … but by others all over the world, he said.

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi advocates renaming Indus Valley Civilization to Saraswathi Civilization, challenging historical narratives.

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

Tamil is a Dravidian language ... iron was identified at sites in Uttar Pradesh — outside of the Indus Valley Civilization — dating to around 1800 BCE, which had also pushed back the Iron ...

and proposed Dravidian etymologies for these Sanskrit words. Witzel, a professor of Sanskrit at Harvard (the same Witzel who declared the Indus Valley Civilisation pre-literate) saw instead a ...