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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]
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Prishantha Gunawardena (Sinhala:ප්රිශාන්ත ගුණවර්ධන) (born on 1964) is a leading archeologist and writer of Sri Lanka. [1] He is renowned for the archeological excavations done in the birthplace of Buddha. He is also interested in Cultural Resource Management, Tourism, Urbanism, Architecture and Ethno ...
In 1932 when Windsor retired Senarath Paranavithana became the first Sri Lankan to be appointed as head of the Department. In 1935 Albert Henry Longhurst took over the role of Archaeological Commissioner and Paranavithana was his Epigraphical assistant. Longhurst was previously the Superintendent of the Archaeological Survey of India. During ...
Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (1865–1937) was an epigraphist and archaeologist of Sri Lanka. [1] He studied at Richmond College, Galle. [2] Subsequently, he worked as an assistant to H. C. P. Bell and served as the epigraphist to the Ceylon Government. [3]
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.
Delgahawaththage Raj Kumar Somadeva (born 01 November 1960) is a Senior Professor in Archaeology at the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, [1] University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka, and a Senior Fellow of the Sri Lanka Council of Archaeologists.
Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1942–2021) 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; Donald Brian Doe (1920–2005) British; Arabia; Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land; Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French ...