It gives me great pleasure to write a few words about the book written by Ranjan Chinthaka Mendis, entitled “An Invisible History of Early Sri Lanka”. I warmly congratulate Chinthaka Mendis, a ...

The ancient town of Dambulla in central Sri Lanka is home to one of the most remarkable and sacred historical sites in the region. Known as the Dambulla cave temple complex, it is the largest and best ...

A new type of forest ecology has been discovered from the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa in north-central Sri Lanka, centered around the irrigation canals abandoned there more than 700 years ago. The ...

The Ramayana is a classic story from Hindu mythology, telling the story of Rama and his conflict with the villainous Ravana, King of Lanka, who has kidnapped Rama’s consort Sita and trapped her in a ...

Small-sized water storage is a key source of resilience for rural communities in many parts of the world. Sri Lanka’s tank cascade system is an ancient means of storing water in the country’s dry zone ...