For thousands of years, the golden kingdom of Lanka described in the Ramayana has captured people’s imaginations. It was said ...

In the late 5th century, King Kashyapa of Sri Lanka was afraid. He had every reason to be — he had orchestrated a coup and seized the throne from the rightful heir, his brother. Fearing an ...

“I find the ancient history and legends of Sri Lanka very rich and resonant to the human condition, and congruent to contemporary events,” he says. “I have used the story of King Kasyapa and Sigiriya ...

As I freewheel around the ancient city, from which Sri Lanka was ruled for 1000 years, I'm not merely dwarfed by the physical size of the sprawling metropolis but by the scale of the ambition ...

Sri Lankan kings attacked Madurai while Chola, even Kalinga, kings attacked and destroyed Anuradhapura, the ancient capital of Sri Lanka, forcing kings to take refuge in hills.

Mendis' book, An Invisible History of Early Sri Lanka, covers the history of Sri Lanka from the time of King Panduka Abhaya in the mid-fourth century BCE to the death of King Kashyapa in the fifth ...

Founded in the 4th century BCE, Anuradhapura served as the capital of Sri Lanka for over 1,300 years, flourishing under the rule of numerous Sinhalese kings.

ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka — Current climate models forewarn that Sri Lanka’s dry zone is likely to become drier due to climate change, resulting in water shortages for agriculture. A country ...

Progressively enhanced over the centuries by a multitude of kings, the temple complex remains the best preserved ancient edifice in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka’s tank cascades (a network of small tanks that store surface water) are one of the country’s greatest legacies from a remarkable hydraulic civilization, built by its ancient kings as a ...

The myth of a Tamil homeland collapses under scrutiny of historical records, colonial chronicles, and demographic facts. The ...