Sigiriya, Eighth Wonder of the World

One of Asia's major archaeological sites, Sigiriya, a five-century urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, provides a unique concentration of hydraulic technology and art. Centred, Sigiriya rock in a huge rise in the distance of 200m around the general location is one of the significant natural and historic interest. Lie the ancient residence of the area between the historic capital of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruva Sigiriya plain still a lot of forest cover, while maintaining the current artificial village reservoirs and village settlements of the first one thousand years BC, such as current and dating back to form , Sigiriya rock itself basically is a sophisticated pleasures of the garden, a variety of moats and walls on the walls of the palace complex and the fifth century AD - and - moated royal capital, and a well-known figure of the rock face west.

Sigiriya's history, however, is 17 and in the prehistoric eighteenth century is expanded. Early evidence of human habitation is situated to the east of Sigiriya rock, the rock shelter of Aligala. This job order started almost 5,000 years ago by the early historic times extended to mesolithic era of major prehistoric sites. Rock, rock strewn hills surrounding the western region and the period of Sigiriya's history together and agreed upon the establishment of a Buddhist monastery in the northern slopes starts in the third century BC. As with other similar sites of this period, partially man ¬ rock shelters or knife to carefully cut protection grooves or drip ¬ ledges 'cave', one of several large rocks at the base has been created. 30 these refuge of the monastery between the 3rd century BC, in the era of the same date by the inscription engraved on the face of the rock ledges near donatory to them, and many of the first century AD The inscriptions record the granting of these caves, in Buddhist all order can be used as a home.