Information about historical sites on Internet

Under ICTA'S e-society program:

Information about religious sites of historical and archaeological importance is being added to the internet. This is being carried out under the e-society Programme of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).

As a step in this endeavour information about the Tantirimale Rajamaha temple and archaeologically valuable information about Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa have been put on the internet. While photographs relevant to each information have been included, one could feel of the sites almost as if he was visiting the locations physically, by viewing them on the internet. This is because the photographs available for view on the internet have been taken from various angles.

You could have this vicarious experience of the Tantirimale Rajamaha temple on www.tantrimale.net and for similar enjoyment of the archaeological aspects of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa the relevant website is www. ancientruins.lk.

These websites are available both in the English and Sinhala media.

ICTA Chief Executive Officer Reshan Dewapura said that it was important that it had been possible to have information about places of historical importance in Sri Lanka thus entered on the internet.

Efforts will be made to extend this endeavour to other sites of historical and archaeological importance.