Visual Timeline: Brahmi Script

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2500 BCE: Earliest use of the Indus Script.
 
 
530 BCE: Persia conquers the Indus Valley.
 
450 BCE - 350 BCE: Earliest recorded archaeological evidence of the Brahmi script found at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
 
 
268 BCE - 232 BCE: Reign of Ashoka the Great, third ruler of the Mauryan Empire.
 
 
 
 
 
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