Colosseum, the design of the Greek stadium was taken over and improved upon by the Romans. The giant amphitheatre built in Rome in the 1st century CE is known as the Colosseum.
The Merlion is a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, used as the mascot of Singapore. Its name combines "mer" meaning the sea and "lion". The fish body represents Singapore's origin as a fishing village when it was called Temasek, which means "sea town" in Javanese.
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.