Padavigampola, not far from the popular tourist hub Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, is Sri Lanka’s most important megalithic monument. The typical trilith architecture is known from many parts of the world, though there were direct interconnections …

Belilena, located 6 km east of Kitulgala and reachable via a plantation road, is a group of large rock shelters, one of them is a picturesque water curtain cave. Belilena is one the three major finding places of the Balangoda culture. Over 16,000 …

Batadomba Lena, besides Pahiyangala and Beli Lena, is one of the three most important archaological sites in rock shelters where prehistoric human skeletal remnants and tools of the prehistoric Balangoda culture were excavated. Batadomba Lena is …

The rarely visited archaeological site of Pahiyangala in Ratnapura District is worth mentioning for two very different reasons. Firstly, the huge semi-cave is one of the most important excavation sites in South Asia. Remnants of prehistoric human …