George Bernard Shaw once enthused, “Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original”. The finely sculpted swarthy island people he admired share their classic character ...

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -Sri Lanka has two official languages: Sinhalese, spoken by 68% of the population and Tamil spoken by 28%. English is used in government and tourist environments.