Sri Lanka’s traditional practice of Kithul Madeema/Kithul Kapeema, an ancient indigenous technology for extracting sap from ...

Hidden beneath the ancient canopy of Sri Lanka’s dry forests and shaded cliff faces lies a gallery like no other — a prehistoric museum where stone meets story. Painted and engraved thousands of years ...

UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee has inscribed Kithul Madeema — the ancient art of kithul tapping — onto its ...

Eleanor Kingwell-Banham works for University College London, Institute of Archaeology. This work was funded by the European Research Council and Natural Environment Research Council. The history of ...

A Visitor Educator giving a tour of its exhibition Total Landscaping at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka, located in Colombo (image courtesy Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ...

Sri Lanka’s well-recognized village tank cascade systems, ancient irrigation structures that interconnect small tanks for rainwater-reliant cultivation, are a remarkable adaptation and mitigation ...

TWELVE CAESARS: Images of Power From the Ancient World to the Modern, by Mary Beard. (Princeton University, $35.) This deeply researched account explores how Roman art has shaped the Western world’s ...