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Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1 March 1942 – 5 October 2021) was a Sri Lankan archaeologist and historian, who served as the Director-General of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2001. [1] He also served as the President of the Sri Lanka Council of Archaeologists. [2]
Archaeological work at Sigiriya began on a small scale in the 1890s. H.C.P. Bell was the first archaeologist to conduct extensive research on Sigiriya. The Cultural Triangle Project, launched by the Government of Sri Lanka, focused its attention on Sigiriya in 1982. Archaeological work began on the entire city for the first time under this project.
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English archaeologist, specializing in South Asian archaeology 1927 2017 Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich: German anthropologist Brit Solli: Norwegian archaeologist 1959 Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway: Italian art historian 1929 Butet Manurung: anthropologist or education activist 1972-02-21 C.H.E. Haspels: Archeologist 1894-09-15 1980-12-25 Camilla Wedgwood
Senake Dias Bandaranayake (1938 – March 2, 2015) was a Sri Lankan archeologist, who served as emeritus professor and vice chancellor at University of Kelaniya. His research was focused on architecture, art history, and ancient paintings of South Asia , including Sri Lanka.
Shreen Abdul Saroor (born 1969) is a Sri Lankan peace and women's rights activist. [1] In 1990 as part of the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka, she was forcibly removed from her home in Mannar by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and placed in a refugee camp.
On 30 November 2010 Channel 4 News broadcast video footage which allegedly showed Sri Lankan soldiers summarily executing captured Tamils in the final phase of the civil war. [19] The video showed a number of dead bodies including a naked woman with her hands behind her back. [20] This woman was later identified as Isaipriya by several sources.
Johanna van Lohuizen-de Leeuw's contributions to South Asian art and archaeology range over several periods, but she is chiefly remembered for her doctoral work on the Scythian period in North Indian art, as well as her work in establishing the roots of Kusana sculpture in the regions of Gandhara and Mathura.