Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, Mahavihara site plan

This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist nuns. Anuradhapura, a Ceylonese political and religio

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Field	Value
DC_Title	Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, Mahavihara site plan
DC_Subject_Specific	Mahavihara site plan;Ceylonese period;Sri Lanka;UNESCO; UNESCO-WHC;World Heritage Site
DC_Description	This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist nuns. Anuradhapura, a Ceylonese political and religio
DC_Language	eng
DC_Type	Image
DC_Format	Image;TimeMap Dataset
DC_Publisher	UNESCO
DC_Contributor_CorporateName	Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney
DC_Coverage_X_min	80.2364
DC_Coverage_X_max	80.2436
DC_Coverage_Y_min	8.2087
DC_Coverage_Y_max	8.218
DC_Coverage_T_Early	-0300-01-01T00:00:00
DC_Coverage_T_Late	0993-01-01T00:00:00
DC_Coverage_PeriodName	3rd Century BC until the end of the 10th Century AD
DC_Coverage_PlaceName	Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
ECAI_Team	Worldwide
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