Explore the breathtaking Sigiriya, Sri Lanka’s iconic ancient rock fortress, with stunning drone footage showcasing its ...

Sri Lanka’s World Heritage Site: Scandal, suicide and Sigiriya. The history of one of Sri Lanka’s World Heritage Site is a fascinating tale of family feuds, deception and murder.

Built in the fifth century, Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya fortress attracted the attention of British archaeologists in the 1800s, who were amazed by its leonine rock art and beautiful frescoes.

Later on in 1982, full scale archeological excavations to restore Sigiriya began through the Sri Lankan Government funded Cultural Triangle Programme. It was in that year that Sigiriya was inscribed ...

Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress and former royal palace, is one of Sri Lanka's most visited and best-known sights, attracting just more than one million visitors in 2019.

King Kasyapa chose a 200-metre-high monolithic rock in the Matale District of Sri Lanka on which to build his new capital, and it remained his stronghold until his defeat in 495 CE. It gets its name ...

Sri Lanka's Sigiriya Rock sits lordly and alone and inevitably brings Uluru to mind. ... a Sri Lankan UNESCO-listed World Heritage site, one of eight – because, ...

ICOMOS monitoring missions to these three World Heritage sites in Sri Lanka were undertaken in November December 1994. The final and comprehensive report of this mission was submitted by ICOMOS in ...

Explore the breathtaking Sigiriya, Sri Lanka’s iconic ancient rock fortress, with stunning drone footage showcasing its towering heights, lush surrounding jungles, and the remnants of its ...

Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress and former royal palace, is one of Sri Lanka's most visited and best-known sights, attracting just more than one million visitors in 2019.