Sentences with phrase «until archeologists»

Abandoned by the Maya nearly 1,000 years ago for unknown reasons, Xunantunich was claimed by the jungle until archeologists in the colonial period began conducting excavations in the mid-1890s.

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Until the modern archeologist provided clay tablets, inscriptions, and artifacts, the Bible was the major historical source for important aspects of the ancient world.

Tad is a bored construction worker dreaming of a life of adventure until one day he is mistaken for a famous archeologist and that dream comes true.

They are eager to get their hands on anything of value within the cavern, until their impulses are stopped short by the arrival of Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), a British archeologist and officer of Cultural Heritage.

This isolated «lost city of the Incans» was hidden from the world until 1911, when Yale archeologist Hiram Bingham was led there by a farm boy.

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.

Although no one knows the original name of the city, today the site is called the «Stone Lady» (Xunatunich in modern Mayan) due to persistent stories of a woman in white that haunted the original British archeologists and has been regularly seen even up until modern times.