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January 2020

Old Park Kachcheri (Jaffna)

The old Jaffna Kachcheri Building (Sinhala: යාපනය පැරණි උද්‍යාන කච්චේරිය; Tamil: பழைய பூங்கா, யாழ்ப்பாணம்) is located in Jaffna Old Park premises…

Jetavanarama Slab Inscription of King Mahasena (Sinhala: මහාසේන රජුගේ ජේතවනාරාම පුවරු ලිපිය) is a fragmentary slab inscription found from the p…

Beddagana Wetland Park (Sinhala: බැද්දගාන තෙත් බිම් උද්‍යානය) is an urban wetland park situated in Beddagana in Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte, Sri Lan…

Diyasaru Uyana Park , also known as Thalawathugoda Wetland (Sinhala: දියසරු උයන), is an urban wetland park situated in Thalawathugoda in Colombo D…

The National Art Gallery (Sinhala: Jathika Kala Bhavana ) (Sinhala: ජාතික කලා භවන) is located in Cinnamon Gardens in Colombo District, Sri Lanka…

The Council Chamber/Royal Court of Nissankamalla (or Nissankamalla's audience hall (Sinhala: නිශ්ශංකමල්ල රාජ සභාව, පොළොන්නරුව) is located in…

The Council Chamber of Parakramabahu the Great (Sinhala: මහාපරාක්‍රමබාහු රාජ සභාව, පොළොන්නරුව) is located to the east of the Parakramabahu Palac…

Kota Vehera , also known as Cuthighara/Suthighara Cetiya (Sinhala: දැදිගම කොට වෙහෙර, සූතිඝර වෙහෙර චෙෙත්‍යය), is an ancient Stupa located in the …

Nawagamuwa Pattini Devalaya and Purana Viharaya (or Sri Sugatha Bimbaramaya ) Nawagamuwa Paththini Devalaya(Sinhala: නවගමුව පත්තිනි දේවාලය; Tami…

Uthuwankanda Saradiel's Rock U thuwankanda , also known as Saradiel's rock (Sinhala: උතුවන්කන්ද), is a mountain [430 m (…

Deshamanya Dr. Sembukutti Arachchilage Roland Silva (1933-2020) (Sinhala: රෝලන්ඩ් සිල්වා) was an eminent archaeologist of Sri Lanka. He was the …

Dr. Malini Dias (Sinhala: මාලිනී ඩයස්) is an archaeologist and was the Director of Epigraphy & Numismatics of the Department of Archaeology, Sr…

Thivanka Pilimage / Pilima Geya , or Tivanka image house (Sinhala: තිවංක පිළිම ගෙය) is a Gedige (vaulted) type image house located in the Ancient…