Get code cracking!

Download coded sheets with messages from Emperor Ashoka from almost 2000 years ago.

Use the key we’ve given to decode the message and read what he had to say. 

(Note: We’ve simplified the Emperor’s messages. While the code provided here uses letters from the actual Ashokan Brahmi script, it is not the script itself. This is my own creation – a simpler version with much fewer characters. While many characters relate closely to the actual sound in the script, some do not.)

Here’s an interesting fact!

For many years, people had forgotten how to read Ashokan Brahmi, we had lost any trace of an emperor called Ashoka and no one knew what was written on what we today call Ashoka’s pillars and rocks!

James Prinsep, the man who deciphered the script on Ashoka’s rocks and pillars in 1837 and helped us rediscover the great Emperor Ashoka struggled for many years before he deciphered it. We’ve made it easy for you by giving you the KEY!