There are many things to do in Sigiriya Sri Lanka – this is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. Most ...

Sigiriya, in addition to being a World Heritage Site, is also one of the very few large secular sites with an unbroken history from 5,000 BC to contemporary periods. It depicts a “microcosm” of the ...

ICOMOS monitoring missions to these three World Heritage sites in Sri Lanka were undertaken in November December ... area surrounding the rock of the outer moat at the Ancient City of Sigiriya site, ...

Environmental organisations and residents of the area expressed concern about the massive gravel mining project within the Sigiriya sanctuary causing extensive environmental damage. The ...

The discovery of a Nestorian cross engraved on a rock in Anuradhapura and another unearthed in Sigiriya some years ago led Prof ... Deeper digging revealed Sri Lanka’s interlude with Nestorianism in ...

Sri Lanka’s infamous water bottle thief – a toque macaque monkey – strikes again. As we saddle up to leave Sigiriya, one of our group momentarily puts down his drinking bottle to take a photo of a ...

However, ICOMOS Sri Lanka was involved. The UNESCO Reactive Monitoring Mission found that the proposed extension of the Sigiriya airport to serve as the principal base for fighter jets would undermine ...