Stop building car park and a toilet complex in Deepa Udyana, Polonnaruwa

(October 12, 2010) Lanka Jathika Sangha Sabhawa, an organization of Buddhist monks urge the Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa to reconsider the construction of a car park and a toilet facility on historical land in Sri Lanka’s ancient city Polonnaruwa. The place demarcated for the development is identified as ‘Deepa Udyana’, an ancient...

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Sri Lanka's highest level pre-historic burial ground in Haldummulla

(August 28, 2010) Sri Lankan archeologists have discovered a pre-historic burial ground from Haldummulla in Badulla district. Prof. Raj Somadewa of Archeological Post Graduate Institute of Kelaniya University that led the research team for excavating the burial ground says that it is over 3200 years old. The ancient cemetery found 4000 feet above...

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Illegal constructions in Sigiriya halted

(May 24, 2010) The Director General of the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka Dr. Senarath Disanayaka has instructed the Central Cultural Fund officials to suspend the controversial constructions in world heritage site Sigiriya. Media and activists...

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Archelogical excavations near Jethawana dagoba of Sri Lanka lead to a society before the dagoba was built

(May 24, 2010) Sri Lanka Department of Archeology has unearthed ruins of an ancient society that believed belong to first and second centuries AD from Jethawana temple area in Anuradhapura. A 42-milligram blue sapphire and many ancient artifacts have...

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Frescoes in Sri Lanka's Sigiriya threatened

(May 09, 2010) A controversy has erupted in Sri Lanka due to a insect menace in Sigiriya ancient rock fortress. While the archaeological authorities are busy in wiping out these insects that harm the world famous frescoes, media and environmentalists...

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Historic ruins excavated

24 APRIL 2010 By Hirtan Priyankara jayasinghe (Daily Mirror) The ruins of an ancient building were found on Thursday during the ongoing excavations in Pallama Sri Nandimitra Navavangu Rajamaha Vihara to lay the foundation for a new building. The Chief Incumbent of the temple the Ven. Pothuthukkulame Deerananada Thera believes that the row of granite...

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Sri Lanka uses ground penetrating radar mechanism in archeology

Ibbankatuwa (April 22, 2010) Sri Lanka Department of Archeology says it has successfully finalized a pilot project of using ground penetrating radar mechanism to explore the underground archaeological monuments. The technology was used in Sigiriya,...

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