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Mihintale: The Hill Where Buddhism Came to Sri Lanka
A chance meeting on a rocky hilltop in the 3rd century BCE between a hunting king and a travelling monk redirected the entire c...
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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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The Kandyan Dance: A Living Tradition
Kandyan dance is one of the most refined classical dance forms of South Asia, combining acrobatic vigour, rhythmic precision, a...
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Galle Fort: A Living Colonial Monument
Built by the Portuguese and reinforced by the Dutch, Galle Fort is a remarkable blend of European architecture and South Asian ...
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The Sacred Temple of the Tooth Relic
Nestled in the heart of Kandy, the Sri Dalada Maligawa houses the most venerated Buddhist relic in the world — a tooth of the B...
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