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  2. Sigiriya - Wikipedia

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    Sigiriya came to the attention of antiquarians and, later, archaeologists. 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 ...

  3. List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka ratified the convention on 6 June 1980. [3] As of 2022, Sri Lanka has eight sites on the list. The first three sites, the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, the Ancient City of Sigiriya, and the Sacred City of Anuradhapura, were listed in 1982. The most recent site, the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, was listed in 2010

  4. Cultural triangle - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka's Cultural triangle is situated in the centre of the island and covers an area which includes the World Heritage cultural sites of the Sacred City of Anuradhapura, the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, the Ancient City of Sigiriya, the Ancient City of Dambulla and the Sacred City of Kandy. Due to the constructions and associated historical ...

  5. Mapagala fortress - Wikipedia

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    Mapagala fortress was an ancient fortified complex of the Anuradhapura Kingdom long before Kasyapa I built his city, Sigiriya. It is located to the South of Sigiriya and closer to Sigiriya tank. [1] It was built by using unshaped boulders to about 20 ft high. Each stone is broad and thick and some of them are about 10 ft high and about 4 ft wide.

  6. Architecture of ancient Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The vatadage is considered to be one of ancient Sri Lanka's most prolific architectural creations; this design represented a changing perspective of stupa design independently within the island. [6] Early provincial vatadages have been in the form of a square [6] later it developed into a circular form enclosing the dagoba. [2]

  7. Sri Lankan irrigation network - Wikipedia

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    Moat surrounding Sigiriya. The irrigation works in ancient Sri Lanka were some of the most complex irrigation systems of the ancient world. The earliest examples of irrigation works in Sri Lanka date from about 430 BCE, during the reign of King Pandukabhaya, and were under continuous

  8. List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka: Ancient City of Polonnaruwa (F) Cultural: 201: Ancient City of Sigiriya: Cultural: 202: Sacred City of Anuradhapura: Cultural: 200 Tanzania: Selous Game Reserve: Natural: 199 United States: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site: Cultural: 198 ( South Yemen) Yemen: Old Walled City of Shibam (F) Cultural: 192

  9. History of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The earliest manifestation of this in Sri Lanka is radiocarbon-dated to c. 1000–800 BCE at Anuradhapura and Aligala shelter in Sigiriya (Deraniyagala 1992:709-29; Karunaratne and Adikari 1994:58; Mogren 1994:39; with the Anuradhapura dating corroborated by Coningham 1999).

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