Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the following year, the Ambalama had completely collapsed. This is conserved by the Archaeological Department, Sri Lanka. A view of the Panavitiya Ambalama with the sign board erected by the Department of Archaeology (Sri Lanka), showing the restoration stages of ambalama
No. 40/1, York Street, Colombo 01 [9] Central Kovil, rest hall and road: Kotahena: Colombo: 22 November 2002: Jinthupitiya road [10] Christ Church Cemetery: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia: Ratmalana: 6 June 2008: Four engraved tombs in the Christian cemetery [11] Clifan Burg House: Colombo: Colombo: 21 January 2000: At Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters [12 ...
The history of Sri Lanka covers Sri Lanka and the history of the Indian subcontinent and its surrounding regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years. [1] The earliest humans found in Sri Lanka date to Prehistoric times about 35,000 years ...
The archaeological heritage of Sri Lanka can be divided into three ages; Prehistoric (Stone-age), Protohistoric (Iron Age), and historical period. The presence of man activities in Sri Lanka probably dates from 75,000 years ago (late Pleistocene period). Prehistoric sites which are presently identified in the country are distributed from the ...
Tamil inscriptions in Sri Lanka date from the centuries before Christ [1] to the modern era. The vast majority of inscriptions date to the centuries following the 10th century AD, and were issued under the reigns of both Tamil and Sinhala rulers alike. [ 2 ]
The prehistory of Sri Lanka covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early Iron Age of the country until the Pre Anuradhapura period in 543 BC. There is evidence of Paleolithic ( Homo erectus ) people in Sri Lanka from about 300,000 BP and possibly even as early as 500,000 BP. [ 1 ]
The Ruwanweli Maha Seya, also known as the Maha Thupa (lit. ' the Great Thupa '), is a stupa (a hemispherical structure containing relics) in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.Two quarts or one Dona of the Buddha's relics are enshrined in the stupa, making it the largest collection of his relics anywhere. [1]
The Galle Trilingual Inscription is a stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian, located in Galle, Sri Lanka. Dated 15 February 1409, it was installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He in Galle during his grand voyages .