Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ambassador from Sri Lanka (獅子國 Shiziguo) to China (Liang dynasty), Wanghuitu (王会图), circa 650 CE There was intense Roman trade with the ancient Tamil country (present day Southern India ) and Sri Lanka , [ 28 ] establishing trading settlements which remained long after the fall of the Western Roman Empire .
The Galle Trilingual Inscription is a stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian, located in Galle, Sri Lanka. Dated 15 February 1409, it was installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He in Galle during his grand voyages. [1]
The Anuradhapura period was a period in the history of Sri Lanka of the Anuradhapura Kingdom from 377 BCE to 1017 CE. The period begins when Pandukabhaya, King of Upatissa Nuwara moved the administration to Anuradhapura, becoming the kingdom's first monarch.
The presence of man activities in Sri Lanka probably dates from 75,000 years ago (late Pleistocene period). Prehistoric sites which are presently identified in the country are distributed from the maritime belt and the lowland plains of the wet and dry zones to the high plateaus and rain forests in the central and southwestern mountain regions ...
Prehistoric Sri Lanka: Stone Age – 300,000 Unknown Bronze Age – ~1000 BC–543 BC Iron Age – 457 543 BC–437 BC Ancient Sri Lanka: Pre-Anuradhapura – 106 Monarchy: 437 BC–463 AD Anuradhapura: 1454 Early Anuradhapura: 900 463–691 Middle Anuradhapura: 228 691–1017 Post-classical Sri Lanka: Late Anuradhapura: 326 1017–1070 ...
The eldest was Vijaya and the second was Sumitta. As Vijaya was of cruel and unseemly conduct, the enraged people requested the king to kill his son. But the king caused him and his seven hundred followers to leave the kingdom, and they landed in Sri Lanka, at a place called Tamba-panni, on the exact day when the Buddha passed into Maha ...
Sandakada Pahana, also known as Moonstone, is a unique feature of the architecture of ancient Sri Lanka. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is an elaborately carved semi-circular stone slab, usually placed at the bottom of staircases and entrances.
The prehistory of Sri Lanka covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early Iron Age of the country until the Pre Anuradhapura period in 543 BC. There is evidence of Paleolithic ( Homo erectus ) people in Sri Lanka from about 300,000 BP and possibly even as early as 500,000 BP. [ 1 ]