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 ...

It was one of the greatest maritime trading powers of the ancient world. For over 2,000 years, Sri Lankan ships sailed across the Indian Ocean, connecting Rome, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, and ...

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 ...

A new type of forest ecology has been discovered from the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa in north-central Sri Lanka, centered around the irrigation canals abandoned there more than 700 years ago. The ...

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 ...

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 ...