Explore the breathtaking Sigiriya, Sri Lanka’s iconic ancient rock fortress, with stunning drone footage showcasing its ...

Experience the breathtaking beauty of a peaceful sunrise at Sigiriya Rock in Sri Lanka. In this captivating short, watch as ...

A complex masterpiece of irrigation engineering design, Sigiriya's artfully designed water gardens required structural planning way ahead of its time. Orange sand particles twinkled in the sun as ...

Perched on a slab of rock that juts dramatically over the forests of central Sri Lanka, Sigiriya is as imposing a sight now as it must have been when it was first built by a fierce king in the ...

What lingered of Sigiriya were tales from the ancient chronicle Cûḷavaṃsa (sequel of the Mahâvaṃsa) and other contemporary documents. Though Sigiriya is hardly discussed after the Anuradhapura period, ...

Mountain of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.Credit: iStock One can certainly become enveloped in sites of Buddhist history in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Tibet and China ...

On the morning of October 15, 1967, the Archaeology Commissionner, Dr. CE Godakumbure, instructed me to go immediately to Sigiriya and take necessary action to remove the green ink (S. theentha), ...

Recently, another of Sri Lanka’s famed world heritage sites faced a suicide attack of sorts. Thousands of suicide warriors attacked visitors at Sigiriya, sacrificing their lives to repulse a potential ...