Nearly 700 graffiti were read and published by Senarat Paranavitana in the 1950s and another 820 deciphered more recently by Benille Priyanka. They record the individual thoughts, feelings and ...

Built in the fifth century, Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya fortress attracted the attention of British archaeologists in the 1800s, who were amazed by its leonine rock art and beautiful frescoes.

Although it was known that there were scrawled ancient graffiti on the Mirror Wall and elsewhere at Sigiriya, and attempts at reading a few writings had been made by H.C.P. Bell in 1905, there had ...