The archeology.lk team came up with the idea in 2009 to put together a database of Sri Lankan inscriptions on the Internet. The archeology.lk team came up with the idea in 2009 to put together a database of Sri Lankan inscriptions on the Internet. However, in the same year, the Royal Asiatic Society launched a similar project on inscriptions in Sri Lanka, therefore, we did not continue our project.
After a few years, the online database of inscriptions of the Royal Asiatic Society was not available on the internet. To fill the vacuum created by it the Institute of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, which is an academic arm of archaeology.lk, launched this online inscriptions database considering it as a matter of urgency.
