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 ...

“Akura”, presenting the extensive work of researcher Dr. Sumanthri Samarawickrama is completed with the help from India-Sri Lanka Foundation. The symbolic expression of language—the letterforms, are ...

Sinhala script had derived from Brahmi script that had given rise to almost all North and South Indian Scripts. In the older tradition, Brahmi has been classified into two subgroups namely Northern ...