Source: www.thehindu.com
INDIA, April 7, 2010: A fragmentary pottery inscription was found during excavations conducted by the Thai Fine Arts at Phu Khao Thong in Thailand. What makes the discovery exciting is that the two symbols on the pottery resemble the Indus script, and even the sequence of the pair can be found in the Indus texts, especially those from Harappa.
The discovery of a Tamil-Brahmi pottery inscription of about the second century CE at the same site was reported earlier. One can presume that the present inscription is also from the Tamil country and belongs approximately to the same period.
The two characters incised on the pottery now reported are not in the Brahmi script. They appear to be graffiti symbols of the type seen on the South Indian megalithic pottery of the Iron Age-Early Historical Period (second century BCE to third century CE).
This provides evidence for the survival of the Indus script in South India during the megalithic age, and for the possibility that the languages of the Indus Civilisation and South India belong to the same family, called Dravidian.