The excavations done in the ancient cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa in the recent years have resulted in some great new finds. The best place to see them is to visit the sites, but to understand them, walk into the museums.
The Jethavanaramaya museum in Anuradhapura is well worth a visit. I was facinated by the things found there. Elaborate marble carvings to those in stone, beautiful bead necklaces and also minute work in gold that would have needed working under a small microscope!
The coins that were found there were over 1600 years old, but still looks good.
But the most interesting piece there was something of special interest to me. More about this later.
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