The Ghostly Gleam of “Muthu Halawatha”: How Sri Lanka’s Pearl Kingdom Was Lost, and the Digital Race to Bring it Back
The sea off Sri Lanka’s northwestern coast does not merely hold water; it holds ghosts. For two thousand years, this stretch, known in Sinhala as “Muthu Halawatha” —the Pearl Coast—was the engine of empires, the source of the epithet “Pearl of the Indian Ocean.” It was here, in the Gulf of Mannar on the continental […]

