The Brahmi script is the earliest writing system developed in India after the Indus script. It is one of the most influential writing systems; all modern Indian scripts and several hundred scripts found in Southeast and East Asia are derived from Brahmi.
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Timeline
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c. 2500 BCEEarliest use of the Indus Script.
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530 BCEPersia conquers the Indus Valley.
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c. 450 BCE - 350 BCEEarliest recorded archaeological evidence of the Brahmi script found at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
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268 BCE - 232 BCEReign of Ashoka the Great, third ruler of the Mauryan Empire.
