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===Red Sea and Southeast Asia=== The Khuan Luk Pat inscription discovered in [[Thailand]] is in Tamil Brahmi script. Its date is uncertain; the first century CE has been proposed.<ref>{{cite book|author=P Shanmugam|editor=Hermann Kulke|display-editors=et al|title=Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa: Reflections on the Chola Naval Expeditions to Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2swhCXJVRzwC&pg=PA208|year=2009|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-230-937-2|page=208|access-date=2018-10-27|archive-date=2021-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202164519/https://books.google.com/books?id=2swhCXJVRzwC&pg=PA208|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cobb2018" /> According to Frederick Asher, Tamil Brahmi inscriptions on potsherds have been found in Quseir al-Qadim and in Berenike, [[Egypt]], which suggest that merchant and trade activity was flourishing in ancient times between India and the Red Sea region.<ref name="Cobb2018" /> Additional Tamil Brahmi inscription has been found in Khor Rori region of [[Oman]] on an archaeological site storage jar.<ref name="Cobb2018">{{cite book|author=Frederick Asher|editor=Matthew Adam Cobb|title=The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPJNtAEACAAJ|year=2018|publisher=Taylor & Francis Group|isbn=978-1-138-73826-3|page=158|access-date=2018-10-27|archive-date=2021-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014160629/https://books.google.com/books?id=bPJNtAEACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
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