The National Museum of Sri Lanka, located in the capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, is the oldest museum in Sri Lanka, founded in 1877. The museum displays precious cultural relics from various historical periods in Sri Lanka, mainly fossils, bronzes, stone carvings, gems, ancient samurai masks, ancient maps, ancient flags and various weavings, metal products, lacquerware, porcelain, murals, Superb handicrafts and armor of the last King of Kandy, and the Lion Throne from Kandy. These artifacts truly reflect the history, religion, humanities, customs and art of Sri Lanka. The museum also treasures a stone monument discovered in 1912, built by the Chinese Ming Dynasty Sanbao eunuch Zheng He when he arrived in Sri Lanka, known as the "Zheng He Monument", inscriptions in Chinese, Arabic and Tamil texts, documenting Zheng He's purpose in Sri Lanka. This stone monument confirms the history of cultural and trade exchanges between China and Sri Lanka since the beginning of the Maritime Silk Road.