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		<title>Maritime Archaeology Museum &#8211; Galle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Maritime Archaeology Museum in Sri Lanka will be opened by Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksha &#8211; The President of Sri Lanka today(March 04, 2010) at Galle. For more information please visit following post.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Gallery &#8211; Maritime Archaeology Museum &#8211; Galle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo credit: Ruwan Janapriya Click on image to see a large image.]]></description>
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		<title>Logo of the Maritime Archaeology Museum &#8211; Galle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The logo of the Maritime Archaeology Museum depicts a vessel with a single mast, which is an iconic representation engraved on a second or first century BC Brahmi cave inscription at Duvegala in the Polonnaruva District. The inscription reads, “cave of Sagrakita, the barata”. The symbol itself comprises of two components. The helm of the mast is adorned with the nandipada or taurine, which is a popular auspicious symbol associated with early historic sculpture and coins. The ship with the single or double mast represents the type of vessels that traversed the sea lanes connecting Sri Lanka with the delta of the Ganges River. Such symbols are found on the Satavahana bilingual coins and as post firing graffiti from several Early Historic coastal sites extending all the way from ancient Mahagama of South Sri Lanka to Kalinga and Tampralipti in East India. The term Barata (and Bata) recorded in the]]></description>
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		<title>Corridors of Oceanic Heritage: The Maritime Archaeology Museum, Galle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sudharshan Seneviratne Ph.D., FSLCA Director General. Central Cultural Fund Sri Lanka was peopled by periodic community intrusions and interactions since the Stone Age resulting in the introduction of a variety of ideas, technological traditions, dialects, and belief systems into this island.  The central location of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean Rim on the one hand and its centrality between two World systems to the West and the East of the Indian Ocean on the other, provides a unique representation of the world culture blended in the ethos of this island society. As a consequence, the cultural landscape of Sri Lanka also represents a habitat of multicultural and varied biological identities. The earliest human habitat in Sri Lanka is identified with the intrusive Pre Historic remains of the Middle Stone Age dating to 30,000 BPE.  The Early Iron Age village culture that extended from Peninsular India succeeded the Stone Age]]></description>
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