Some tourists and locals were seen engaged in religious observances at the Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple which is also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla. Pix by Samantha Perera ...

1998 Report on the ICOMOS Monitoring Mission to Dambulla, Kandy and Galle, Sri Lanka; 13 - 20 December 1998 1994 ICOMOS Mission to Sri Lanka, November-December 1994 Conservation issues presented to ...

The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at its recently-concluded 40 th session in Istanbul, Turkey, has expressed “serious concern” about, among other things, the lack of implementation of an agreed ...

Anyone who travels along the Kandy – Jaffna highway, may be able to view the picturesque scene of the Dambulla rock and the cave temple which are considered as iconic landmarks which addsprestige to ...

ICOMOS experts reported on the state of conservation of the site and its buffer zone, including information on the improved infrastructure around the site. However, ICOMOS experts expressed concern ...

After 14 years in hiding, when King Valagamba finally returned to reclaim his throne in Anuradhapura around 89 BCE, he paid homage to a cave—a dark, wind-swept sanctuary carved deep into a 160-metre ...