In the city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka stands an engineering monument built more than 1,700 years ago and considered the ...

Tiny stone tools — known as microliths — were essential to the growth of our species thousands of years ago. According to a new paper published in PLUS One, microliths seen in the Fa Hien cave in the ...

Tiny stone tools -- known as microliths -- were essential to the growth of our species thousands of years ago. According to a new paper published in PLUS One, microliths seen in the Fa Hien cave in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jetavanaramaya, a huge religious structure in Sri Lanka, was completed in about 301 CE. - Jeremy Woodhouse/Photodisc/Getty Images ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Sri Lanka’s western rainforests used a quartz-containing “flexible toolkit” to hunt small mammals, new research shows. The researchers discovered South Asia’s oldest ...

The ancient town of Dambulla in central Sri Lanka is home to one of the most remarkable and sacred historical sites in the region. Known as the Dambulla cave temple complex, it is the largest and best ...

If you look at satellite imagery, you will notice a faint hint of a connecting strip between India and Sri Lanka. This is Adam's Bridge, also known as Ram's Bridge or Ram Setu (राम सेतु), a vast chain ...

Eleanor Kingwell-Banham works for University College London, Institute of Archaeology. This work was funded by the European Research Council and Natural Environment Research Council. The history of ...

“Far across the southern seas stood a golden city, guarded by demons and ruled by one who defied even the gods.” That’s how ancient texts describe Lanka — the grand kingdom of Ravana, the ten-headed ...