Sentences with phrase «amateur archeologists»

In 1925, a band of adventurers seeking fame and fortune - led by Rick O'Connel (Brendan Fraser), an American expatriate who has joined the foreign legion, and Evelyn Carnarvon (Rachel Weisz), an amateur archeologist - find a previously unknown burial site in Egypt.

Humans inhabited these areas thousands of years ago and for the amateur archeologist, the traces of the 600 A.D. earthwork defenses of the Iron Age Votadini people will be an intensely intereseting discovery.

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Oskar Schell is an inventor, jewelry designer, amateur entomologist, Francophile, percussionist, avid fan - letter writer, pacifist, Central Park archeologist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweler, actor (Yorick in the winter production of Hamlet), inconsistent vegan, collector of: rare coins, butterflies that have died natural deaths, Beatles memorabilia, miniature cacti and semi-precious stones.

The ruins of the ancient structures had their stones reused for residential construction of the agricultural village of Rockstone Pond in modern times, but the ancient site did not come to the attention of archeologists until 1963, when the existence of a sizable ancient site was recognized from the air by pilot and amateur Mayanist Hal Ball.