The house's name, Doornberg, and date of construction, 1712, are inscribed on the bottom step, and its colour is ...

Two Dutch museums returned nearly 500 cultural objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka that were looted during the colonial era, including gold and silverware, statues, weapons and hundreds of artworks.

Two Dutch museums returned nearly 500 cultural objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka that were looted during the colonial era, including gold and silverware, statues, weapons and hundreds of artworks.

Sri Lanka's national museum in return granted authority to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to hold the artifacts until they are transported to Colombo in December. The first batch set to return to Sri Lanka - ...

Two Dutch museums returned nearly 500 cultural objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka that were looted during the colonial era, including gold and silverware, statues, weapons and hundreds of artworks.

During the emerging of the modern architectural style in the country it was handled by few foreign educated architects until university of Moratuwa established its faculty of Architecture in the early ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two Dutch museums are handing hundreds of cultural artifacts back to Indonesia and Sri Lanka — from a richly decorated cannon to precious metals and jewelry ...

Work took a year. The last major overhaul had been sensitively carried out in 2002 by architect Channa Daswatte, a pupil of Sri Lanka’s master of Tropical Modernism, Geoffrey Bawa.Previously ...

It also included a bronze cannon decorated with silver, gold and precious gems including rubies. The 18th-century "Lewke's cannon" is believed to have been a gift by a Sri Lankan aristocrat called ...