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Dutugemunu and Elara: The Duel That Defined a Kingdom
In 161 BCE, two kings met in single combat outside the gates of Anuradhapura. The story that followed has been told and retold ...
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The Hydraulic Civilisation: How Ancient Sri Lanka Mastered Water
Two thousand years before modern hydraulics, Sri Lankan engineers built thousands of reservoirs and invented a pressure-regulat...
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Polonnaruwa: The Golden Age of Medieval Lanka
After Anuradhapura fell, a compact and brilliantly planned city rose in the east - and for two centuries Polonnaruwa produced s...
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Anuradhapura: The City That Ruled for a Thousand Years
For roughly fourteen centuries, Anuradhapura was the beating heart of Sri Lanka - a capital of monasteries, reservoirs and bric...
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ඉසුරුමුණිය රජමහා විහාරය
ඉසුරුමුණිය වු කලී මුල්ම බෞද්ධ විහාරස්ථානනයවේ.දේවානම් පියතිස්ස (කි:වපු :250-210*රජ දවස කරවණ ලදි. පන්සියයක් ඉසුරුමත් පුරුෂයින් මි...
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Royal Palace of Hanguranketha
Hanguranketha has a long history .in this place was found an inscription by queen Leelawathi of the Polonnaruwa period and it w...
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Sigiriya: The Lion Rock of Ancient Lanka
Rising dramatically from the central plains, Sigiriya is one of the best-preserved examples of ancient urban planning in Asia —...
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